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Tooltip help links to .chm help files don't work in recent Excel versions #106

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govert opened this issue Mar 22, 2021 · 2 comments
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govert commented Mar 22, 2021

The tooltip form become a help link when hovering on the function name.
If the function is registered with help text, IntelliSense attempts to open the help url, or the chm file and topic using a call to System.Windows.Forms.Help.ShowHelp.

Help file links and the Help.ShowHelp call don't work anymore under recent Excel versions - see also https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/308412/is-the-latest-version-of-excel-365-blocking-htmlhe.html

We might examine trying to call Application.Help instead.

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It looks like this works again, with the latest office updates of Excel 2016 64 bit. i.e when hovering over the function name and clicking then the right topic is opened. maybe somebody else could verify this on other Excel versions.

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govert commented Apr 14, 2021

@nVenticDW Do you mean before for the version of IntelliSense before the change I tried: 646c4ed

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