Help System For Application

[EarlCPhillips]

In "Access 2003 Bible" it refers to a HTML Help product that can create a
context sensitive help document whenever the cursor is in focus on a control
and the F1 key is pressed. The authors state that this utility is in
Microsoft Office.

I cannot find it. Please point me in the right direction for the wizard to
create a context sensitive help document for my application.

Earl Phillips
Ex-Mainframer Learning Access
To Help Feed the Hungry Efficiently

 

[Gina Whipp]

I did a Google Search...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Microsoft+HTML+Help+product&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

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[Tony Toews [MVP]]

In "Access 2003 Bible" it refers to a HTML Help product that can create a
context sensitive help document whenever the cursor is in focus on a control
and the F1 key is pressed. The authors state that this utility is in
Microsoft Office.

FWIW I created a table of help text with a form to view the help text
memo field. Then I created command buttons with a question mark
graphic calling the appropriate page in the help text. A lot less
work than figuring out MS help.

Tony

 

[Daniel Pineault]

For a listing of a few methods and tools available to you check out

http://www.devhut.net/index.php?lang=en&id=0000000010#documentation
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Hope this helps,

Daniel Pineault
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For Access Tips and Examples: http://www.devhut.net
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[JohnC]

I too did the same. But not until after fighting with HTML Help and then
finding that I couldn't get it to work on our network. Much better to
create a help table and command buttons that display the memo field as
suggested by Tony.

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Create a OpenHelpTopic function in a standard module similar to:

Public Function OpenHelpTopic(stTopicIdx As String)
On Error GoTo Err_OpenHelpTopic

Dim stDocName As String
Dim stLinkCriteria As String

stLinkCriteria = "[HLPTOPIC_INDEX] = '" & stTopicIdx & "'"

stDocName = "frmHelpTopic"
DoCmd.OpenForm stDocName, , , stLinkCriteria

Exit_OpenHelpTopic:
Exit Function

Err_OpenHelpTopic:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume Exit_OpenHelpTopic

End Function

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Create a table: tblHelpTopic
Fields HLPTOPIC_INDEX as text. HLPTOPIC_MSG as memo.
HLPTOPIC_INDEX contains the index number. In this example: "10201"
Assign unique index numbers for each help topic.

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Create a form "frmHelpTopic" to display your help memo field. You can add a
command button to print the help topic if you wish.

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In the on-click event of the help buttons for eample have
=OpenHelpTopic("10201")
This will call the function and pass the required index number to it so the
form opens with the correct help memo.