VBA Help Problems

[Guest]

My excel VBA help answer wizard and index options have stopped working. When
I try to input a search string the cursor changes to <-> and I am unable to
enter any string. Can any good fellow help me out.
Thanks

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

Try closing excel and reopening. this worked for me last time it happened.

Dave McRitchie has advised opening the taskmanager and killing any
application in the first tab that appears to be related to help.

 

[Guest]

Tom,
Thanks for the response. Yes, I have exited excel. I have rebooted my
computer. But none of these actions seem to resolve the problem.
Any more help from anyone will be greatly appreciated.

 

[whywolf]

I have exactly the same problem ans already surfed around...
I need help too
many thanx in advance

Bye - Wolf

 

[Dave Peterson]

Your posts are standing alone (for me at least). The other posts have aged off.

You may want to try posting the actual question you have.

 

[whywolf]

OK - here's the initial post:
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My excel VBA help answer wizard and index options have stopped
working. When
I try to input a search string the cursor changes to <-> and I am
unable to
enter any string. Can any good fellow help me out.
Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hello,

Has anyone found the solution yet?

I am having the same problem as well. I have the impression that it has
started when I have installed a software callde ArcGIS which is using VBA as
well for its programming language. The VBA help has the same problem in all
the office components except for ArcGIS' VBA.

When I called ESRI (the software's developers) they through back the ball at
Microsoft (in Malaysia) which simply asked me to re-install office "to get
the apple".

My question is: "Has anyone of you installed any software which is using VBA
as a macro languge for its customization?" ) i.e.: AutoCAD, ArcGIS, Corel
Draw ...etc.

Note: I am not saying that it is a fact; these software ahve damaged your
installation, but I just want to check it out since . I cannot afford to
reinstall Office!

Thanks.

 

[David]

Check and see if the F1 help works everywhere else. If it doesn't,
then it's probably a Service Pack that has caused the problem.

On my machine, IT installed SP2 and it screwed up all the help access.
The only way to fix it was to reinstall Win 2000.
I believe there is a KB on MS site.

 

[Guest]

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply. I have forgotten the golden rule: must tell people the
versions I am using:

a. OS: Win XP SP1 (for some reasons we are holding on installing SP2 on this
specific machine).
b. MS Office: XP SP3

The problem exists only on this machine and only on the VBA help of
Microsoft Office. All the other help(s) are OK, even the VBA help of ArcGIS.
What I usually do is open VBA of ArcGIS when I want to access the VBA help
(quiet annoying).

Thanks.