ACC97: "What's This" Help Is Not Visible in a Run-Time Database Created with Microsoft Office Developer Edition (ODE Tools) (285984)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Access 97
  • Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition
This article was previously published under Q285984
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SYMPTOMS

When you create a database in Access 97 and include the "What's This" question mark (?) Help feature on your form, the "What's This" ? will appear on your form in Microsoft Access. You can click the "What's This" ?, and it will function. However, when you use the Microsoft Office Developer Edition (ODE Tools) to create a run-time application, and you install the database onto a Microsoft Windows 95-based computer, the "What's This" ? does not appear at the top of the form as expected. In fact, if you click to the left of the Close button on the form in the spot where you would normally expect to see it, (to the left of the X in the top-right corner), the "What's This" ? will suddenly appear and is usable until you select an item from the form to view Help on. Then the "What's This" ? disappears again. This process is repeatable.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design. This behavior occurs when you disable the Close button on the Access form to which you are adding the "What's This" Help feature.

RESOLUTION

To prevent this behavior, set the CloseButton property of the form to Yes.

REFERENCES

For additional information about "What's This" Help, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

142249 HOWTO: Implement "What's This?" Help in Visual Basic

180733 HOWTO: Add Context-Sensitive Help to Your ActiveX Control

173638 BUG: "What's This?" Button Disappears from MDI Child Forms

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/31/2003
Keywords:kbprb KB285984
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