What's wrong with using GOTO ?????

[David W. Fenton]

IME, the primary reason to remove a Help topic and hide it
in Object Browser is so people don't use it and MS won't
have to worry about testing it. And, if they don't test it,
they can break it.

Was there ever a help topic on Erl? The earliest version I have on
my machine is 97, and it's not in the help file. It was a hidden
member in that version of VBA, too.

OTOH, SaveAsText and LoadFromText have always been hidden.
But then, that's only because they only intended it for
their own use, not general use.

Exactly. Many things are hidden because they are undocumented, not
because they are deprecated. It has more to do with what MS decides
they want to support than it does with whether or not it's on the
way out.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Was there ever a help topic on Erl? The earliest version I have on
my machine is 97, and it's not in the help file. It was a hidden
member in that version of VBA, too.

I 'm guessing, but I believe that Erl was an object in Access Basic (along
with Err$), and when the Error object was introduce with VBA, Erl was kept
for backwards compatibility.

If I remember, I'll check the documentation for Access 2.0 when I get home
tonight (Office 4.3 had numerous printed manuals with it, and if I recall
correctly, the box for the Access 2.0 run-time included a hard-copy version
of the Help file)

 

[Marshall Barton]

I 'm guessing, but I believe that Erl was an object in Access Basic (along
with Err$), and when the Error object was introduce with VBA, Erl was kept
for backwards compatibility.

If I remember, I'll check the documentation for Access 2.0 when I get home
tonight (Office 4.3 had numerous printed manuals with it, and if I recall
correctly, the box for the Access 2.0 run-time included a hard-copy version
of the Help file)

Doug, I thought I'd save you the trouble, but when I pulled
the A2 box out of the bookcase all it had in it was the
floppies. I think my wife borrowed the manuals and then
packed them away in the crawl space years ago.

I sent the Win 3.10 machine off to the old computer recycle
center just a couple of weeks ago so there's no help (pun?)
there either.

 

[John W. Vinson]

If I remember, I'll check the documentation for Access 2.0 when I get home
tonight (Office 4.3 had numerous printed manuals with it, and if I recall
correctly, the box for the Access 2.0 run-time included a hard-copy version
of the Help file)

As it happens, I still have 2.0 available - and yes, there's a help topic on
the Err and Erl functions. I think it is still in the current version for
backward (WAY WAY back!) compatibility. It doesn't let me copy and paste the
help text but it's what you'ld expect.

I've never used linenumbers in VBA code so I wasn't aware of this feature
either!