Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide

The Kinds of Help You Can Use

You can create three kinds of Help for your Office solutions:

• Context-sensitive pop-up Help to describe your solution's interface elements. (This kind of Help is sometimes referred to as What's This Help.)

  You can create context-sensitive Help for dialog boxes created by using UserForms or Access forms. This type of Help is displayed either by clicking the question mark button in the title bar of a dialog box and then clicking a control, or by moving the focus to a control and then pressing SHIFT+F1. A small borderless pop-up window appears next to the clicked control.

  You can also create context-sensitive Help for command bar controls. Context-sensitive Help for command bar controls is displayed either by pressing SHIFT+F1 and then clicking the control, or by clicking What's This? on the Help menu before clicking the control.

  Important   While HTML Help does provide the ability to author and display pop-up windows for context-sensitive Help, UserForms, Access forms, and command bars in Office 2000 do not support using HTML Help files for context-sensitive Help. If you want to add context-sensitive Help for interface elements in your Office 2000 solution, you must author and compile your topics as WinHelp 4.0 (.hlp) files by using Microsoft Help Workshop or some other WinHelp 4.0 authoring tool.

• Standard Help topics that can be displayed by clicking a Help button in a dialog box or form, or by clicking a control on a command bar.

  Clicking a Help button in a dialog box or form displays a Help topic in a separate Help window. You can also associate a Help topic with the Help button displayed in dialog boxes created by using the InputBox and MsgBox functions, and you can provide Help topics for custom errors returned by using the Raise method. Similarly, you can provide a menu item or toolbar button on a command bar to display a Help topic.

• Standard Help topics that can be displayed from the Object Browser to document the properties and methods you define in custom class modules.