Installation error?

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MikeB

I've recently gotten a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate. As
part of this I've also migrated from my old Access 2002 (Office XP) to
Office 2007 and Access 2007.

I'm a Help junkie, I can barely do anything without getting the Help
on it (or oftentimes posting here for help... ;))

One of the things I need a lot of help with is the built-in functions.

In my previous version of Access, I could click on the function in the
Expression Builer frame and then click the Help button to get help
about a particular function.

If I do this on my new computer, I get an error message in the Help
window that says: "The Help for this program was created in Windows
Help format, which depends on a feature that is not included in
Windows Vista. However, you can download a program that will allow you
view Help created in the Windows Help format from the Microsoft
website."

Well, this doesn't make sense to me. If I open up Help and search, I
can find the help description for the same function, so I'm thinking I
messed up something in the installation? Does anyone know? Surely MS
would not in their own programs not migrate the Help? Should I ask
somewhere else? Or should I go ahead and do as the Help article
suggest and install the old Windows Help program?

Thanks.
 
M

MikeB

I've recently gotten a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate. As
part of this I've also migrated from my old Access 2002 (Office XP) to
Office 2007 and Access 2007.

I'm a Help junkie, I can barely do anything without getting the Help
on it (or oftentimes posting here for help... ;))

One of the things I need a lot of help with is the built-in functions.

In my previous version of Access, I could click on the function in the
Expression Builer frame and then click the Help button to get help
about a particular function.

If I do this on my new computer, I get an error message in the Help
window that says: "The Help for this program was created in Windows
Help format, which depends on a feature that is not included in
Windows Vista. However, you can download a program that will allow you
view Help created in the Windows Help format from the Microsoft
website."

Well, this doesn't make sense to me. If I open up Help and search, I
can find the help description for the same function, so I'm thinking I
messed up something in the installation?  Does anyone know?  Surely MS
would not in their own programs not migrate the Help? Should I ask
somewhere else?  Or should I go ahead and do as the Help article
suggest and install the old Windows Help program?

Thanks.
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I've looked at the download page and it seems I may be opening up a
whole can of worms if I download and install Win32hlp. Macros will
stop working and whatnot. THis is frustrating, since it is now much
harder to get to the help, but I don't want to break things, either.


Oh bummer.
 
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