Displaying a Standard Help Topic from a Toolbar Button or Menu Item

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Displaying a Help topic when a user clicks a toolbar button or menu item is similar to creating a Help button for a form. However, command bar controls don't provide a Click event, so you must first create a Sub or Function procedure that displays the Help topic, and then set the control's OnAction property to the name of that procedure. The same restrictions apply when you are creating a procedure to display a Help topic as when you are creating a Help button: You can use the Help method of the Application object to display a custom Help topic only in Excel and PowerPoint, but you must use an API call to HTML Help to display a custom Help topic in Word and Access.

See Also

Working with Shared Office Components | Displaying Help from Command Bars | Displaying Context-Sensitive Help for Command Bar Controls