Where has the assistant gone?

[Helmut Weber]

Hi everybody,

from the help:

Sub test66666()
If MsgBox("Enable Office Assistant?", _
vbYesNo, "Assistant is Off") = vbYes Then
Assistant.On = True
Assistant.Visible = True
Assistant.Animation = msoAnimationGetAttentionMajor
End If
End Sub

results in an runtime-error.

Method 'On' of object 'Assistant' failed.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

 

[David Kavanagh]

Your code worked fine when I tried it with Word 2003.
Perhaps office assistant was not installed? Have you tried showing it
manually using the Help, Show Office Assistant menu item?

Regards,
David.

 

[Helmut Weber]

Indeed, wasn't installed.
I am ashamed, but have never used it.

Thank you David.

 

[John Doue]

Indeed, wasn't installed.
I am ashamed, but have never used it.

Thank you David.

MVPs are not supposed to need it, do they?

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi John,

MVPs are not supposed to need it, do they?

indeed, wasn't installed and if I had to install it,
would remove it afterwards again.

Haven't seen an assistant for years.

But when I was testing a beautiful tool by Greg Maxey
for handling bookmarks, I got puzzled at first,
as Greg is using assistant.balloons to display some
messages.

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word 2002, Windows 2000

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The only time I used it was to try out the routine in the article "Let
Clippy dance" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/ShowAllClippitAnimations.htm

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