Currently working on another post and decoding an error and discovered that the help link was broken. On my machine it has been placed elsewhere. As this is now a movable feast I show here how to find this nice help file. The file is called vblr6.chm. It could either be in a the subdirectory of C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86); so try both using the following template.
C:\Program Files>dir vblr6.chm /s > %tmp%\vblr6_chm_dir.txt
The above command will scour all subdirectories. I use dir foo.bar /s very often and sometime it produces very many results so I pipe it to a temp file. Also the operation can take a long while if using dir foo.bar /s from the root directory! So I launch this command and come back to it later. When it is finished I open the file with Notepad using...
C:\Program Files>Notepad %tmp%\vblr6_chm_dir.txt
and then Notepad contains the Dir listing
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is DEAD-BEEF
Directory of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX86\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA7.1\1033
26/11/2017 12:59 926,475 VBLR6.CHM
1 File(s) 926,475 bytes
Total Files Listed:
1 File(s) 926,475 bytes
0 Dir(s) 2,728,976,478,208 bytes free
So finally entering in the command line solely the filename, in quotes because of spaces, will throw a dialog box saying do you want to open file with Help Viewer and if one responds yes then one gets the help file in an application as shown here.
C:\Program Files>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX86\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA7.1\1033\VBLR6.CHM"
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