Getting Information with the Research Task Pane

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Research the contents of a cell
You can research the contents of a cell using the reference books in the Research task pane by holding down the Alt key and clicking the cell containing the text you want to research.

At the bottom of the Research task pane are links you can click to update the research tools installed on your computer, such as the thesauruses and dictionaries, and a link to the Office Marketplace. The Office Marketplace is a resource on the Microsoft Web site that lists subscription services you can use when the basic tools at your disposal in the Research task pane don’t give you all of the information you need. Two such resources are the eLibrary, which provides access to 13 million multimedia documents, including photographs and maps, that are collected from periodicals published around the world, and more than 450,000 corporate profiles from the Thomson Profiles collection. The collection includes information on 300,000 U.S. companies and includes industry comparisons, market share information, rankings, and news stories from a collection of 2,500 journals.

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