Ways to get help on writing code
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There are many ways to access Help for answers to questions about Microsoft Visual Basic and for information about Visual Basic keywords. To access Help, you can:
- Press F1 in a Visual Basic module While you are working in a module, you can go directly to Help on a method, property, function, statement, or object by clicking the keyword in a line of code and then pressing F1.
- Press F1 in the Object Browser You can use the Object Browser to see information about objects, properties, methods, and constants.
- Ask the Microsoft Office Assistant To display the assistant balloon and type an entry, either click Office Assistant on the toolbar, or if the Assistant is already displayed with no balloon, click the Assistant. The Assistant makes it easy to find the topics you're looking for. Just type the method, property, statement, or function you want help on, or type a question, and then select one of the topics the Assistant suggests. The more specific your question is, the more specific the suggested topics will be. An example of a specific entry is "Program my form to automatically update data."
- Use the Contents tabs Click the Contents tab, and then double-click the Programming Information book to see the categories of reference information, such as actions, events, functions, objects and collections, methods, properties, and statements. Double-click a category book to view lists of topics for each category. To print a topic or book of topics, select the topic or book and then click Print.
- Switch between your application and language reference Help Press ALT+TAB or use the Microsoft Windows taskbar. If you leave Help active, you can immediately return to the last topic you were viewing.