Using Help in Office 2003 VBA code design window

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Help seems no longer the way I am used to seeing it. In .NET and elsewhere
when I go into help I expect a Window that has a help hierarchy in the left
pane and helo text in the right pane. In Acess 2003 VBA code design window,
I get the hierarchy in the Code design window and the help detail in a
separate window. Is there a way to get the hierarchy and detail in the same
window.

My second question involves using Outlook reference and getting help for the
Outlook code. Specifically, I would like to see the object diagram for
Outlook but am unable to find it. I have done the following: (1) created a
reference to Outlook and (2) displayed the object browser. In this mode I
can select a class or class member in the browser and get a brief help
description. What I can't do is get a hierarchical topic listing related to
Outlook.

I need help. I must be missing something but I can't find what it is.
 
you are not missing anything; Micro$oft screwed up the new help file
system... I hate it, and I know many others have voiced their disapproval
of it
 
You need to go to the source to get help on OLE. So if you want to automate
Outlook, you need to look in Outlook help. It doesn't make sense to include
all these entries in Access.

I agree that Access help is not very helpful. People have been complaining
about it since A2K was released 5 years ago. Maybe we'll see some
improvements in the next release.
 
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