VBA documentation in Office 2007

[Nelviticus]

We have just switched from Office XP to Office 2007 and the VBA documentation seems to have a shocking omission - the 'See Also', 'Example' and 'Applies To' links. Am I missing something obvious or have these really gone from the VBA help? That makes it virtually unusable! Luckily I have a virtual PC with Office XP installed so I can still look things up but I just can't see anywhere in the 2007 'help' that lets you turn these things back on.

Yours horrified, shocked and a bit worried

Nelviticus

 

[TonyJollans]

Don't be horrified, shocked and worried ... yet! When they check the usage stats and find that nobody uses it they will probably remove it altogether.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[Nelviticus]

Sounds a bit like the BBC and the old version of Doctor Who - they wanted to ditch it but didn't want all the bad publicity that would cause, so they just made it dreadful instead and ditched it once everyone began to hate it.

If it's OK with you I'll continue to be 'horrified, shocked and a bit worried' for the time being but will reserve 'outraged, appalled and disgusted' for later use if they decide to drop it.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[HughLerwill]

Other aspects of the 2007 VBA are pretty useless too. e.g. the Help for the 'Add' method. Previously (2003) we got a selection list in the form

Add method as it applies to Addins
Add method as it applies to AllowEditRanges
etc.

Now we get a simple list of many 'Add method' buttons with no clue as to what lies beneath them. It is interesting too that we are not nagged with 'was this information helpful' on that particular page!

 

[Nelviticus]

If you enable on-line help then you get the 'was it helpful' buttons but still no hyperlinks to any of the objects in the topic, or indeed anything other than the Glossary.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[Nelviticus]

... actually that's not true, some topics do hyperlink to the major objects they mention. My bad. But still no See Also/Applies To links.

Nelviticus