Strange behaviour in VBA Help

[Michael Singmin]

Hello Group,

I have installled Excel 2000 on a new Win XP Pc. When I activate help
in VBA, the cursor turns a horizontal arrow with arrow heads left and
right when I go into a cell window. I cannot select anything with this
strange behaviour.

Any explaination for this ?

Thanks,

Michael Singmin

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

From a previous post by David McRitchie

Try the following:
Bring up the Windows Task Manager and within the Processes tab,
select msohelp.exe then use the End Process button.
Bring up HELP again.

 

[Michael Singmin]

Thank you Tom,

Unfortunately, it does not work. That blasted arrow is still there.
Should I reinstall Excel ?
Btw, the Worksheet Help works perfetcly.

Michael

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

I wouldn't.

I would reboot and see if that helps. I would clean everything out of the
Windows Temp directory.

See the google groups archive for this problem and see if anyone else has
another idea

http://groups.google.com

select advanced search.

What: double arrow help VBE
Newgroup *excel*

 

[Michael Singmin]

Thank you again Tom,

Suddenly for no reason the VBA Help is working again.

Many thanks for your suggestions,

Michael