Hi Brian,
Unfortunately, no. Office 2003 uses compiled
(.CHM) html help files and does not include an
index as in earlier versions. You can use offline
or online help files and you may have better luck
doing searches using either search.msn.com or Google
rather than the 'help' search line in the Office 2003 apps.
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is there anyway to do this? I can't ever find what i'm looking for in 2003 >>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx