[Dxbase] Win & and help files

[Gary AL9A]

Greg,

Are there multiple error messages or are you getting just one - "There was a 
problem running the macro. (1037)"?  The problem is not with DXB or Win 7, 
but with Microsoft and their decision to drop support of their own product. 
You've found how to add the correct program to get the Help file back up 
(I've forgotten the name - HELP32.exe or something like that.), but now the 
error message pops up and there is limited functionality in the Help system, 
specifically no Search ability.  If you go back to the Microsoft web site 
and do some more exploring you will find another topic about the old Help 
file format that lists another program that can be downloaded to restore 
full functionality to the Help file.  MS recommends that you not do this 
however, as it fixes the macro problem by reactivating them.  Apparently 
these macros can then be used by hackers to do bad things to your machine. 
At least that's how I remember it from a few years ago when I got a new 
machine with Vista.

You may be able to get close to the area you want though by a work around. 
Click Output/Standard Reports and when the Select Standard Report window 
opens hit the F1 key.  The error message will pop up again, but just close 
it.  The Help manual is now on a page of information regarding reports - 
Standard Report Names.  You can now use the left and right arrow buttons at 
the top of the page (<< and >>) to step through each of the pages in the 
reports section.  Not sure if you will find what you need, but you can at 
least see what's there.

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Engle" <n6pyi at bak.rr.com>
To: <Dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: March 04, 2011 8:39 PM
Subject: [Dxbase] Win & and help files


> Ok, I've done the Windows 7 fix so it'll open pre win7 help files. Sure
> enough it will open them in DXbase but I get all sorts of error messages.
> I'm pretty much dead in the water until DXbase 2012 comes out unless I can
> figure how to view the files. Last night I tried to figure out how to run 
> a
> report and could NOT get to the help section that dealt with it.
>
>
>
> And Ideas?
>
>
>
> Greg
>
> N6PYI
>
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