Microsoft / Word HELP

[John_S]

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

What happened to my offline Word Help? I used to have the option to check the Help Index offline when I needed to learn a function. Now when I check Word Help, I no longer get an index but instead end up here via a link on Word Help Home. I don't want to go online unless I have to: I find searching this site to be time-consuming and often quite unhelpful. And what do I do when I'm traveling with my MacBook and can't get online? Help!

 

[JE McGimpsey]

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

What happened to my offline Word Help? I used to have the option to check the
Help Index offline when I needed to learn a function. Now when I check Word
Help, I no longer get an index but instead end up here via a link on Word
Help Home. I don't want to go online unless I have to: I find searching this
site to be time-consuming and often quite unhelpful. And what do I do when
I'm traveling with my MacBook and can't get online? Help!

At the bottom of the Help window there's a popup that gives you a choice
to use only Offline help.

Of course, you could have found this information if you'd searched for
"offline help" in Word Help (topic: "Turn off online Help"), whether
online or offine... <g>

 

[John McGhie]

In addition to John's helpful advice, we could point out that the Office
2008 help is almost entirely ON-line.

The main reason Microsoft did this was was to enable updates quickly and
frequently. There will be updates coming out for the offline help, but
generally you will get much better results by leaving the help enabled for
online searching currently.

Most users will get much better help this way: the problem with OFF-line
help is that you have to start writing it two years before the product goes
on sale, so the majority of the topics end up being written by someone who
has never seen the finished product.

Those of us trying to work on trains, planes and buses are less well-served,
of course The idea is to eventually have the best of both worlds: to
enable the Help to update its local copy each time it does go on line.
Maybe next time, for that bit...

Hope this helps

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

What happened to my offline Word Help? I used to have the option to check the
Help Index offline when I needed to learn a function. Now when I check Word
Help, I no longer get an index but instead end up here via a link on Word Help
Home. I don't want to go online unless I have to: I find searching this site
to be time-consuming and often quite unhelpful. And what do I do when I'm
traveling with my MacBook and can't get online? Help!

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