XL2000: F1 in Custom XLM Dialog Box Displays Office Assistant

• Microsoft Excel 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Microsoft Excel 4.0 macro function Dialog.Box to display a custom dialog box, and you press F1 while the dialog box is active, your custom help file does not appear. Instead, the Office Assistant appears.

NOTE: If you clear the Respond to F1 key check box in the Options tab in Office Assistant, the Excel Help file appears.

WORKAROUND

You cannot use the F1 key in Excel to display a custom help file while an Excel 4.0 custom dialog box is active.

To work around this behavior, follow these steps:

1. Display the custom dialog box.



2. Use the right mouse button to click (right-click) any item in the custom dialog box, which responds with a What's This? dialog box.



3. Click What's This? and your custom help file should appear.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: XL2000 context sensitive

Keywords : kbprg xlvbahowto xlvbainfo xlmhowto xlminfo
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug