Assistant Object

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Office Developer Reference

Represents the Microsoft Office Assistant.

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The Microsoft Office Assistant and AnswerWizard have been deprecated in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system.

Remarks

Use the Assistant property to return the Assistant object. There isn't a collection for the Assistant object; only one Assistant object can be active at a time. Use the Visible property to display the Assistant, and use the On property to enable the Assistant. The default Assistant is Rocky. To select a different Assistant programmatically, use the FileName property.

Example
The following example displays and animates the Assistant.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With Assistant
    .Visible = True 
    .Animation = msoAnimationGreeting
End With

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