Excel-specific Help Menu?

[BeckyM]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Since my computer was upgraded to Leopard and Office 2008, the help menus within Excel or Word don't seem to access the help files for the actual program - all they give me are "menu items" and then "help topics" which are the generic ones for the computer.

e.g. I wanted to do a Find and Replace today but it's not working, which I think has something to do with the symbols I'm using. Searching under Help doesn't turn up anything on that function in Excel except the "menu item", which just takes me back to the Find box instead of giving me information.

Has the Help setup changed or is this a problem with how the software was installed on my computer?

Thanks!

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Since my computer was upgraded to Leopard and Office 2008, the help menus

within Excel or Word don't seem to access the help files for the actual
program - all they give me are "menu items" and then "help topics" which are
the generic ones for the computer.

Unfortunately, that's now a "feature" of Leopard and Snow Leopard as well.
It has nothing to do with Microsoft as far as I know.
Apparently Apple thought that users would want to access general
Mac OS X help files using the Spotlight-like search box from
whatever application they were working with.
The fact is, I imagine that most users like yourself and I
would prefer to search on *application-specific* help while
working in an application like Office...

Try going to the "Excel Help" located underneath the Help menu
for starters - that's where the Excel-only help items are located.
You can then do a search from there on the help contents.

Jeff