what happened to context sensitive help in PowerPoint 2003 ?

[Joobson]

Hi,
PowerPoint used to have a feature where you could use the key command
SHIFT+F1 to change your cursor to a question mark. You could then click on a
menu item and get context sensitive help on it. The 'HelpContextId' Property
within the VBA help still outlines this functionality, though it doesn't
actually seem to work anymore.

Any help would be appreciated.
J.

 

[Joobson]

Thanks for your reply.

Do you know if any resoning for this was given? or if the same goes for
Office 2007 after the Panels were discarded for preference of the ribbon?

I assume they just didn't bother to update VBA's help documentation on the
'HelpContextId' Property.

J.

 

[Pia Bork]

"PowerPoint Developer Home > Visio > Visio 2007 Automation Reference >

Visual Basic
for Applications Language Reference > Visual Basic Language Reference >
Properties"

Visio? VISIO? Why am I getting Visio help in PPT?

maybe for those users who never know which software they are using? They
call me and ask "why that table doesn't work any more" - "ok, which table in
which program?" - "I don't know the program, it's the table I always work
with"

So Microsoft thought it would be good to offer help for any program in case
the user doesn't know which program he's working with?