Office 2013 Professional offline help - how do I install it

Anonymous
2013-03-12T00:54:56+00:00

Hi all:

I am using Office Professional 2013 and I need to install offline help.  I've searched the topic and no answers come up.

I travel a lot and the planes and places I go don't have easy access to the Internet.  In other words, online help WILL NOT work for me.

Where is offline help located or are there additional downloads?  I REALLY MISS distribution DVDs and being able to setup Office my way.

Thanks,

rp

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-23T08:57:07+00:00

    Hi

    Unless I have missed something, and in which case I appologise in advance, for thinking that the powers that be at Microsoft did not apply their minds.

    It is however IMHO insanity that the user friendly Help munu of access, word and Excel 2007 and 2010 has been removed in the 2013 version.

    How on earth can one learn and understand the office suite of products without "HELP". To assume that the a user has continual and reliable internet access 24/7 beggars belief. No to mention how slow it is. Having upgrade from the 2007 and 2010 product range and thinking that 2013 would be better and now having to deal with restricted HELP is unacceptable in the strongest of terms.

    FRUSTRATED BEYOUND BELIEF. WHY DID I WASTE MY MONEY AND HOW CAN I REVERT BACK TO MY OLD VERSION AND CLAIM A REFUND

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-09T22:51:30+00:00

    Watch this space.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-09T14:24:12+00:00

    For Office 2013 the local help is useless - it explains what a button on the ribbon bar does.  It does not provide detailed help as it did in Office 2007 and Office 2010.

    How can Microsoft not see this???!!! Have they done absolutely no usability testing with human beings??? This is the WORST USER EXPERIENCE I've ever had with software. Yes, worse than Windows 8!!! And I'm a MCAS! Dozens of new features and changes to the interface and not a word of explanation in the Help content.

    Microsoft may have found a way to foil software pirates with this new approach, but they have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Loyalty only goes so far.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-04-01T20:56:46+00:00

    I just ran into this same issue. So far office 2013 is my least favorite of all the office suites... I find the UI terrible as well.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-03-18T14:07:06+00:00

    Have the same issue.  System is not allowed to connect to the internet for security reasons, yet MS seems to think their produce would never be used without the internet.  Local help is nothing but a description of ribbon buttons.

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