Office 2003 Help

[Mike]

Hi,

I have a user, whom I just upgraded to Office 2003 from
Office 2000. In Office 2000, you could click on Help on
the Menu bar, and click on Microsoft Word Help (F1) for
example, and it would pop up options to search on
content, Answer Wizard, and Index. He could put in his
criteria, and look at possible answers.
That seems to be different on Office 2003, and it wants
to send you to search online for everything by default.
When I did the install, I told it to do a complete
install, so I hope all of the help options are installed,
but maybe by default they aren't activated. Is there
anyway to tell it to not default to search online, and
look at the internal help first, as well as get the
content/answer wizard/index to be an option for searching?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Greg]

Hi Mike,
I saw your message while trying to find an answer to mine,
so I'll give it a go.

Microsoft always trys to "improve" on their products and
Office 2003 does it again with improved Help. Click on
Help and select "Feedback Options." Select "Online
Content" then uncheck the top box "Show... connection." OK
your way out.

The next time you click on the Help icon or press F1, Help
will open with an "Assistant" window that has search
abilities. There is also a Table of Content link for
specific topics.

Hope this helps. It would be nice if Microsoft just made
their apps functional, secure and stable, and avoided
bloating hard drives with unnecessary stuff/methods.
Personally, I'm still trying to get "normal" menu icons.
Greg

 

[Guest]

Greg,

I agree, they have something that works and people get
used to it, and they go and change it by default, it's
very frustrating....
Thanks for the help, I will give it a try.

Mike