How to disable annoying help page behaviour

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Neil

Hi All,

How does one go about disabling that wonderful feature of Windows help re -
sizing the Excel window so that you end up with a half - half (slightly
overlapping) view of the help window and the Excel window ?
Win XP SP2, Excel 2000

Thanks,

Neil
 
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Bob Phillips

Hi Neil,

I wonder who thought that that was good idea? Too much time in a dark room I
guess. Anyway, Chip Pearson posted this fix a while back

You can fix this "feature" with a registry entry. Run RegEdit, and go to
the key


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic­rosoft\Office\9.0\Common\HelpV­iewer


If there is a value named "IsFloating", change its value to 1. If there
isn't a value with that name, add a DWORD value named "IsFloating", and give
it a value of 1.


Restart Excel and VBA, and you'll be all set.



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HTH

RP
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Bucky

Bob said:
I wonder who thought that that was good idea? Too much time in a dark room I
guess. Anyway, Chip Pearson posted this fix a while back
You can fix this "feature" with a registry entry. Run RegEdit, and go to
the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic­rosoft\Office\9.0\Common\HelpV­iewer
Click to expand...

holy crap, what a cool fix! Just FYI, you should go to the registry
path with the latest version of office (for example 10.0 instead of 9.0)
 
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Bob Phillips

Bob said:
I wonder who thought that that was good idea? Too much time in a dark room I
guess. Anyway, Chip Pearson posted this fix a while back
You can fix this "feature" with a registry entry. Run RegEdit, and go to
the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic­rosoft\Office\9.0\Common\HelpV­iewer
Click to expand...

holy crap, what a cool fix! Just FYI, you should go to the registry
path with the latest version of office (for example 10.0 instead of 9.0)

Hey, I'm still on 9.0 :)
 
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