Match Web Help to Office Product

[HelpMe]

It such a waste of time and effort to try to find help on the office website.
I use Office XP but, when I click 'Office on the Web' from the Help menu in
Word - I am brought to Office 2003 Help - and GENERAL help at that - not even
WORD help. Buried somewhere on the website is Office XP Word Help but finding
it is frustrating and rarely contains any useful information. It's usally
stuff that can be found in the actual (and not near comprehensive enought)
Help that is shipped with the product. To be quite honest, I think the
Microsoft website is pretty much worthless and is more of an advertisement
for more Microsoft products than help at all. Are any of Microsoft's
employees Microsoft product USERS?

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[Mary Sauer]

There is all sorts of help on the Office web site as well as dedicated Word sites.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH010390431033.aspx
http://word.mvps.org/
http://word.mvps.org/Tutorials/FreeToAccess.htm

 

[Beth Melton]

On one hand I agree – it would be nice to navigate to the specific product
portal when you use Help/Microsoft Office Online. But on the other hand, the
capability you are asking for was incorporated in Office 2003 Help.

btw, once you get to Office Online click "Word" or whichever application you
want more information on, in the Navigation pane on the left under "Products".

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Beth,

Ummm, I'm going to disagree with you on this one.
Using Help searches in Office 2003 also pulls in
non version specific answers and you can't really
tailor a search as you can on Google or Yahoo.

The implementation relies on too much trial and error
and user time.

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On one hand I agree - it would be nice to navigate to the specific product
portal when you use Help/Microsoft Office Online. But on the other hand, the
capability you are asking for was incorporated in Office 2003 Help.

btw, once you get to Office Online click "Word" or whichever application you
want more information on, in the Navigation pane on the left under "Products".

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance
can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton >>

 

[Beth Melton]

I'm not sure how searching Help or Google applies here, if I'm not
mistaken the suggestion was referring to how using Help/Office On the
Web (or in 2003 Microsoft Office Online) takes you to the Office
Online portal rather than the specific application portal.

The capability I was referring to is on the Help task pane and the
link for "Get the latest news about using <application>" which will
take you to the specific application portal.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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