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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
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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You can get offline help for Office VBA at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40326. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent download for the general program help.
I'd like to invite you to vote in a UserVoice Suggestion I posted here. The Microsoft Team actually read and bring ideas to the roadmap of the product.
Bring VBA offline help back
Until Excel 2010, VBA help was offline. Now, Excel 2013 and 2016 opens a browser to display the help topic online. This caused issues, as users that aren't connected to the internet can't use help and the browser layer gives a slower experience.
The user should at least choose if he wants to use local offline help or online help.
Well, unfortunately both topics have been dismissed, Too bad they were mangled. Still without doubt, help for both the normal user as well as the Office programmer must be available offline. Zillions of normal users run into question while working offline anywhere and Office programmers may work in security Scenarios where they are not allowed to go online at all.
I HOPE MICROSOFT OFFICE TEAM WILL REVISE THEIR DECISION AND NOT ONLY RE-ADD THE HELP FUNCTIONS TO 2016/365 BUT ALSO RETROFIT OFFICE 2013.
Still sorely missing offline help for both normal Office users as well as VBA programmers.
When you go into Help for the application, there should be a little dropdown arrow to the right of the word Help (in top left hand corner of help screen).
Maybe you haven't noticed that offline help contains very little information -- In Word, it just tells you where a command can be found in the ribbon, but nothing about how to use it. Excel also has topics about functions for formulas.
And then you get completely unhelpful stuff like this:
When you go into Help for the application, there should be a little dropdown arrow to the right of the word Help (in top left hand corner of help screen).
How can the fact that Help is not available to us "Helpful".