Office 2003 Help and Compare Default Questions

[Dave]

Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Dave]

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx