Saving Help pages in VBA

[Larry]

With Help files in Word 97 VBA, is there a way to save a particular Help
page to return to it later? The only thing I see remotely like this in
Options is annotations, and all that does is add notes to the Help page,
it doesn't save it for easy retrieval.

This can be a pain when you've found a really useful Help page, and
there's no way to keep it around, but you have to go searching for it
again the next time.

Larry

 

[Larry]

From the lack of response, I guess there's no way to do this? So if you
find a really helpful VBA help file, you have no choice but to go
looking for it all over again the next time you open Word?

 

[Jonathan West]

From the lack of response, I guess there's no way to do this? So if you
find a really helpful VBA help file, you have no choice but to go
looking for it all over again the next time you open Word?

About the only thing I can think of is to copy & paste it into a Word
document, and then save that.

 

[Klaus Linke]

From the lack of response, I guess there's no way to do this?
So if you find a really helpful VBA help file, you have no choice
but to go looking for it all over again the next time you open Word?

Hi Larry,

In olden times (Word 6), you were able to set bookmarks in the help, to
return to some topic later.
The feature was scrapped.

With Help files in Word 97 VBA, is there a way to save a particular Help
page to return to it later? The only thing I see remotely like this in
Options is annotations, and all that does is add notes to the Help page,
it doesn't save it for easy retrieval.

Even this I don't see any more in Word 2000/2002/2003.
If some feature isn't used by a significant percentage of the users, it's
often removed.

You could create a document for your "favourites" and add it to the Work
menu.

For each help topic, you could add a macro button

{ MACROBUTTON HelpCaptionLabel Help for the CaptionLabel object }

(Of course you can add other text inside or outside the MacroButton field.
It's just going to act like a hyperlink)

and a corresponding macro containing the html page (which you can get from
right-click > Properties in the Help file):

Sub HelpCaptionLabel()
Shell "HH.EXE mkMSITStore:C:\Programme\Microsoft
Office\Office10\1031\vbawd10.chm::/html/woobjCaptionLabel.htm",
vbNormalFocus
End Sub

Double-clicking on the macro button will bring up the help page.

The path to the help file will be different for you, so the example above
won't directly work.

Quite a lot of work...

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Jay Freedman]

From the lack of response, I guess there's no way to do this? So if you
find a really helpful VBA help file, you have no choice but to go
looking for it all over again the next time you open Word?

I've complained repeatedly about the lack of bookmarking in the VBA
help file. If anything, the VBA help in Word 2003 has gotten more
unusable.

For Word 97, you can find the entire VBA help on the MSDN web site.
The Word-specific topics are under this top page:

Microsoft Word Language Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/office97/html/output/F1/D4/S5A856.asp

The topics that are common to all of Office VBA are under this page:

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Language Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/office97/html/output/F1/D6/S5B1DB.asp

Use your browser's Favorites feature to store URLs of pages you want
to refer to. Note that you'll have to right-click the TOC entry in the
left pane and click Copy Shortcut, then paste into a Favorites item,
because the browser's address bar shows only the main frame address.
:-(

 

[Larry]

Amazing that they would do away with the bookmarks feature--it's so
obviously necessary!

Thanks for the tip on the online version of the VBA help.

Larry