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

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

52 answers

Sort by: Newest
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-16T15:43:26+00:00

    Its nowid September 2016. Help did work on my machjne until a bug in Windows 10 needed a re install.  Now there is no help at all. I paid for a product with help

     Removing or disabling it is fraudulent

     Any lawyers out there able to take on Microsoft?

    I'm on Windows 10 (just got the Anniversary udate) and offline help still works in Word 2010 and 2013 (although 2013's offline help is paltry).  I assume the same is true of Word 2016. Did you try pressing the F1 key? What happened?

    I am a lawyer, and would not want to spend the time on this. On the other hand if you have a spare couple of hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest, I'm sure you can find a lawyer willing to help you spend it. Probably on other issues with Office and Word though, not this one.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-16T15:15:15+00:00

    Microsoft has not deliberately removed or disabled Help in Office programs, so your dreams of lawsuits are premature. In the latest Insider release of Word on the latest update of Windows 10, the help still works. This is what I see when I press F1 (the standard shortcut for help in almost all Windows programs):

    If you can't get the help to appear, something went wrong in your update, but it's specific to your computer. You can try removing the update and letting it download again, and/or you can try repairing the Office installation.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-16T11:17:22+00:00

    Nothing yet, but I am still on the look-out for it.

    Its nowid September 2016. Help did work on my machjne until a bug in Windows 10 needed a re install.  Now there is no help at all. I paid for a product with help

     Removing or disabling it is fraudulent

     Any lawyers out there able to take on Microsoft?

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-14T22:00:24+00:00

    As far as I know, the VBE has been hard-coded to launch online help from the F1 key. I don't know whether there's any way to redirect the call to the offline .chm -- maybe someone with more knowledge can provide that. For myself, I just keep a shortcut to the offline help on my desktop, and I copy/paste search terms from the VBE to the help's search box. It's clunky, but I don't have to do it very often.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-13T20:22:11+00:00

    Hi Jay,

    yep, VBA help for Office 2013 can be downloaded but do you know of a way to integrate the .chm?  Feels like at the used car dealership "This car has radio for sure.  I bought a boombox and put it in the trunk myself."  Not quite what people expect, isn't?

    So I do expect a professional solution by Microsoft.  But I would also be grateful for hints how to sort of attach or integrate the .chm files to the VBE.

    regards

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments