Help Keeps Appearing!?

[Wiggy]

Hello there.

 

I read this excellent forum A LOT to help me with many problems, but can't seem to find the solution to this........

 

Everytime I open Cad, or a drawing within Cad the Help dialog box appears. (As if I've hit F1) I've had a browse through Options to no avail.

 

Oh, I'm using 2006 LT.

 

Thanks for any help.

[ReMark]

Did you take a look at the Properties for the shortcut for opening AutoCAD?

[gbradley]

This is a long shot, but you may also look at your Right-Click Customization.

I know if I open a new template, the Right click repeat shortcut is Repeat HELP.

If I hit Enter, the Help screen pops up.

Good Luck

[Wiggy]

Thanks for the replys guys.

 

Did you take a look at the Properties for the shortcut for opening AutoCAD?

 

I have, and there doesn't seem to be anything odd. Doesn't seem to matter which way I start Cad.

 

This is a long shot, but you may also look at your Right-Click Customization.

I know if I open a new template, the Right click repeat shortcut is Repeat HELP.

If I hit Enter, the Help screen pops up.

Good Luck

 

Checked it out, and all appears normal.

 

Don't understand it at all. Never used to do it.

I can live with it, if noone had any other ideas.

[ReMark]

AutoCAD LT 2006. Then you've been running this software for a while. When did the problem first occur?

[ReMark]

When you right-click on the AutoCAD startup icon and select Properties go to the Shortcut tab and look what is written in the box called Target. Copy that line out and post it here. Thanks.

[ReMark]

Well you can always remap the key following these instructions:

 

http://ltisacad.blogspot.com/2007/09/f1-key-reprogram-to-stop-calling-help.html

[Wiggy]

Ah, problem solved.

 

A colleague of mine, had made a mistake in one of his LISPs, which I had set to run on startup.

 

D'oh!

[ReMark]

Dang! And I was just going to pass along two responses to a similar question about this same time last year.

 

The first response was by rkmcswain who suggested disabling custom startup files such as acad.lsp and acaddoc.lsp.

 

The second response was by alanjt who suggested looking for extra in startup.

 

Better late than never, right? Thank you for updating us Wiggy and glad to hear things got sorted out.