VBA help files no longer supported????

[mikecox39]

Some time ago I subscribed to Office 365. I installed it without giving any thought to the VBA help files.

Yesterday I realized that the VBA help files were not available so, following the instructions in Bill Jelen's book, I uninstalled Office, in order to re-installed it, expecting to see a "Custom Install" option, but it never appeared.

I contacted MS and they said it no longer available. I couldn't believe it and I was baffled!

How could they do that and why wasn't there a huge Hue and cry?

fyi I have an old copy of Office 2010, on CD, and while I suggested I might have to install it, as a work around, MS said "Do not do that", in no uncertain terms, but what are my options? I am struggling with all the available parameters and need the help file.

I'm not sure I can install my copy of Office while 365 in on my machine so I believe I will have to uninstall 365 then rely on the 2010 version of the software.

Or... is there another option?

 

[Michael M]

Re: VBA help files no longer suppoerted????

I found googling for help far more efficient AND useful than the VBA help files....I never use them anymore, as they seem to cause more confusion than help !!

 

[mikecox39]

Re: VBA help files no longer suppoerted????

I found googling for help far more efficient AND useful than the VBA help files....I never use them anymore, as they seem to cause more confusion than help !!

Thank-you Michael.

The Help file system seems like it would be much easier to use, since it is seamless; all you had to do was put the cursor on a method and hit F1.

Google searches turn up so many results,much of it irrelevant, or a hustle, that it's hard to sort it all out and get to usable results.

Maybe I just need to learn out how to formulate my query.

 

[mikecox39]

Re: VBA help files no longer suppoerted????

I found googling for help far more efficient AND useful than the VBA help files....I never use them anymore, as they seem to cause more confusion than help !!

I just stumbled onto the MS site which appears to have all the Help file information on it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.datasheet-graph-object