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Online Help
The following are ways to receive help in the Microsoft Visual
Basic Editor.
Note To start the Visual Basic Editor in an Office 2003 program, press
ALT+F11, or on the
Tools menu, point to
Macro, and then click
Visual Basic Editor.
- On the Help menu in the Visual Basic
Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help.
- Select a word in the module code sheet, and then press F1
to open Help for that object, method, or property.
The Object Browser
You can use the Object Browser to browse through all the available
objects in your project and see their properties, methods, and events.
Additionally, you can see the procedures and the constants that are available
from object libraries in your project. You can easily display online Help as
you browse. You can use the Object Browser to find and use objects that you
create, in addition to objects from other programs.
You can receive
help for the Object Browser by searching for Object Browser in
Help.
To locate the Object Browser, follow these steps:
- Open your code module in the Visual Basic
Editor.
- On the View menu, click Object
Browser (F2), or click Object Browser on the
Standard toolbar.
- In the Project/Library list, select the
name of the project or the library that you want to view.
- In the Classes list, select the class you
want.
Use the Member list to select specific members
of your class or project. - View information about the class or member that you
selected in the Details section at the bottom of the
window.
- Click Help (?) on the
Object Browser toolbar to display the Help topic for the class
or the member that you selected.
Microsoft Press books
Microsoft Office Access 2003
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Additional Microsoft Press resources
You may want to search the Microsoft Press Web site as new
resources are added periodically. To view the Microsoft Press Web site, visit
the following Microsoft Web site:
Microsoft Knowledge Base
Many articles in the Knowledge Base contain sample code for common
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) solutions. The advantage of
accessing the articles online is that you can copy the code from your browser
and paste it into a module. This saves you the time that it takes to manually
type the code.
To access the Microsoft Knowledge Base on the World
Wide Web, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
For additional information
about how to use the Microsoft Knowledge Base, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
129725
Obtaining Knowledge Base Articles on the World Wide Web
Helpful Knowledge Base articles
Microsoft Office Access 2003
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2003
Internet newsgroups
For a list of peer-to-peer newsgroups that are available to help
you interact with other users of Visual Basic, visit the following Microsoft
Web site:
Other Web resources
The following Web sites are also of interest to programmers of
Office 2003 programs:
Microsoft Office Developer Center
Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Developer Network