Access 97 was released about the same time as HTML Help, so there is zero support for this particular help system from Access 97. For example, you won’t be able to use the help functionality of the MsgBox function with HTML Help as it only works with WinHelp. The way to fix this particular problem is to use Sönke Huckfeldt’s techniques for creating custom MsgBox and InputBox functions. These techniques can be found in a sample database which is available from the same page you retrieved this article from.

You can snag code out of the HTML Help class module to call topics from a menu, command buttons, etc., in Access 97 and 2000. However, there’s a problem with this in that Access doesn’t use App.Path to derive the path to the application as in the class module code. Microsoft Access MVP Doug Steele suggests using the following to replace App.Path:

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