About getting Help on Visual Basic

There are many ways to access Help for answers to questions about Microsoft Visual Basic and for information about Visual Basic keywords. Descriptions of a few of the most common and useful ways of accessing Help follow.

To access Help, you can:

• Press F1 in a Visual Basic module. While you are working in a module, you can go directly to Help on a method, property, function, statement, or object by clicking the keyword in a line of code and then pressing F1.
  
  
• Press F1 in a Object Browser. You can use the Object Browser to see information about objects, properties, methods, and constants. For information on using the Object Browser, click .
  
  
• Ask the Office Assistant. To display the assistant balloon and type an entry, either click Office Assistant on the toolbar, or if the assistant is already displaying with no balloon, click the assistant. The assistant makes it easy to find the topics you're looking for. Just type the method, property, function, statement, or function you want help on, or type a query, and then select one of the topics the assistant suggests. The more specific your task is, the more specific the suggested topics will be. An example of a specific entry is "Program my form to automatically update data."

  Notes  

  • When the Visual Basic Editor is active, the Office Assistant by default searches for topics only in programming Help files. To change this default so that both programming Help and product Help files are searched, right-click the Office Assistant, click Options and select Search For Both Product And Programming Help When Programming.
    
    
  • When any window other than the Visual Basic Editor is active, the Office Assistant searches for topics only in product Help files. Help on actions and Microsoft Access properties is available with both product and programming Help.
• Use the Contents and Search tabs. The Help Topics dialog box contains several tabs that you can use to access Help information in different ways.
  • Click the Contents tab, and then double-click the Microsoft Access Programming and Language Reference or Visual Basic for Applications book to see the categories of reference information, such as actions, events, functions, objects and collections, methods, properties, and statements. Double-click a category book to view lists of topics for each category.

    To print a topic or book of topics, select the topic or book and then click Print.

  • Click the Search tab, and then click the topic you want.

Tips

• To switch between your application and language reference Help, press ALT+TAB or use the Windows taskbar. If you leave Help active, you can immediately return to the last topic you were viewing.