Getting Help While You Work

At some time, everyone has a question or two about the program they are using. The Office Online Help system provides the answers you need. You can search an extensive catalog of Help topics using a table of contents to locate specific information, or you can get context sensitive help in a dialog box. You can also ask your question in the Type A Question For Help box located on the right side of the menu bar. When you use any of these help options, a list of possible answers is shown to you in the Search Results task pane, with the most likely answer to your question at the top of the list.

Get Help Without the Office Assistant

Click the Help button on the Standard toolbar.

Locate the Help topic you want.

• Type one or more keywords in the Search For box, and then click the Start Searching button.

• Click Table Of Contents, and then click a topic.

The topic you want appears in the right pane.

Read the topic, and then click any hyperlinks to get information on related topics or definitions.

When you're done, click the Close button.

Click the Close button on the task pane.

Get Help While You Work

Click the Type A Question For Help box.

Type your question, and then press Enter.

Click the topic that you want to read about.

When you're done, click the Close button on the task pane.

Get Help in a Dialog Box

Display the dialog box in which you want to get help.

Click the Help button.

Click the item in the dialog box in which you want information.

A ScreenTip displays information about the dialog box item.

Click a blank area to remove the ScreenTip.