Can't get help on certain control properties

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Mark Haddad

Access XP seems to have lost some help functionality from
Access 97. For example, if I create a control on a form,
and put my curser in the Enabled property (on the data
tab) and press F1, I get generic help. In fact, I can't
find help on the enabled property (as it relates to a form
control) anywhere. If I do the same thing in Access 97, I
get the context-sensitive help I am looking for. Same
thing happens on many other (but not all) property
fields. How do I find out what these fields do? I have
to keep Access 97 running just to access the help!

Mark
 
Sad but true. There are many issues with context sensitive help in A2000 and
A2002. For help topics that pertain to the use of a property in VBA, the
easiest way to get help is to open the VB Editor, then open help from the
VBE. I often use the immediate window instead of the index search - type the
word, then hit F1. You'll probably find more useful information this way.

Note - I'm not defending the way that help is crippled in A2000 and 2002,
just offering a suggestion on how to work around its shortcomings :-)
 
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