Microsoft KB Archive/177107

= ODE97: How to Display Context-Sensitive Help for What'sThis Button =

Article ID: 177107

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition

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This article was previously published under Q177107



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SUMMARY
You can provide context-sensitive help for a What's This button on the Title bar of your form by using the WhatsThisButton property. When this property is set to True, the mouse pointer changes to the What's This state (arrow with a question mark) and the topic displayed is identified by the WhatsThisHelpID property of the control that the user clicks.

This article demonstrates how to display context-sensitive help for the WhatsThisHelp property by using Help to open a pop-up window provided by Windows 95 Help.



MORE INFORMATION
To display context-sensitive help that appears when a user clicks the What's This button and drops it on an object on your form or report, follow these steps:  Create your Help topics in Microsoft Word or another word processor. For more information about creating your topic files in Microsoft Word, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

177116 ODE97: How to Create Context-Sensitive Help for a Microsoft Access Database

175491 ODE97: Step-by-Step Example of Creating/Compiling a Help File

163939 ODE97: Help Workshop Help Topics Contents

171958 ODE97: Tips for Creating and Compiling Your Windows Help File

 Use Microsoft Help Workshop to compile your Help topics. Open the form that contains the objects for which you want to provide What's This help information. On the View menu, click Properties to display the form's properties box. In the Form Properties box, change the MinMaxButtons property to None and the WhatsThisButton property to Yes. In the HelpFile property, type the name for the Help file that contains your Help topics.

NOTE: Copy this file to your Windows Help folder so that Microsoft Access will be able to find it.</li> In the HelpContextID property, type the number that you linked the Help topic to in Microsoft Help Workshop.

NOTE: To display the Help topic in a pop-up window, put a minus sign (-) before the number.</li> Repeat step 7 for each control on the form that you want to link to a Help topic.</li> Open the form in Form view, click the What's This button, and drag it to one of your controls.

Note that the Help topic information appears.</li></ol>

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