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
On 12/05/08 8:07 AM, in article ee9b193.-1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John_S@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <John_S@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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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