Understanding the VBA Help System

As you continue to learn the VBA language and the Word Object Model, you'll need lots of help picking up the details. Fortunately, VBA comes with lots of help for the language, as well as the objects, methods, and properties you'll need to learn.

A quick way to get help with a topic in VBA is to position the insertion point anywhere in the term for which you need more information and press F1. VBA Help appears, with the help topic selected, as shown in Figure 32.11.

Figure 32.11. The VBA help topic for the Selection object describes its purpose and shows examples of its use in code.

In most cases, the VBA help ...

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