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There are many ways to access Help for answers to questions about Microsoft Visual Basic (Microsoft Visual Basic: A high-level, visual-programming version of Basic. Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft for building Windows-based applications.) and for information about Visual Basic keywords. To access Help, you can:

• Press F1 in a Visual Basic module While you are working in a module (module: A collection of declarations, statements, and procedures stored together as one named unit. There are two types of modules: standard modules and class modules.), you can go directly to Help on a method, property, function, statement, or object by clicking the keyword in a line of code and then pressing F1.
• Press F1 in the Object Browser You can use the Object Browser (Object Browser: A dialog box that displays information about objects, properties, methods, and constants in the current project and in referenced object libraries, and that you use to search for an element, get help on it, or paste it into a module.) to see information about objects, properties, methods, and constants.
• Ask the Microsoft Office Assistant To display the assistant balloon and type an entry, either click Office Assistant on the toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), or if the Assistant is already displayed with no balloon, click the Assistant. The Assistant makes it easy to find the topics you're looking for. Just type the method, property, statement, or function you want help on, or type a question, and then select one of the topics the Assistant suggests. The more specific your question is, the more specific the suggested topics will be. An example of a specific entry is "Program my form to automatically update data."
• Use the Contents tabs Click the Contents tab, and then double-click the Programming Information book to see the categories of reference information, such as actions, events, functions, objects and collections, methods, properties, and statements. Double-click a category book to view lists of topics for each category. To print a topic or book of topics, select the topic or book and then click Print.
• Switch between your application and language reference Help Press ALT+TAB or use the Microsoft Windows taskbar. If you leave Help active, you can immediately return to the last topic you were viewing.