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
    2016-01-15T04:09:47+00:00

    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.

    Why do people keep bringing up VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) offline help on this topic? Is there that big of a problem with reading comprehension? It has nothing to do with VBA help and that just totally clouds the issue (which has been going on way, way too long with no resolution or even a single relevant response from Microsoft). Please re-read the title of the post and the original posts explaining the problem. The title of this post is "Office 2013 Professional offline help - how do I install it"; it is referring to regular user offline help for Office and NOT developer help for VBA!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-15T12:10:47+00:00

    In one of my request comment's, I actually ask not only to bring back VBA help offline, but also all help from all Office products.

    For what it is worth, it turned out that this topic changed/expanded its original subject. Do you have any problem with that? I also admit that maybe I'm the one responsible for this. Sorry for my lack of comprehension.

    P.S.: I will still write about offline VBA help on this topic.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-18T09:00:46+00:00

    How can the fact that Help is not available to us "Helpful".

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-21T09:45:59+00:00

    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).

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-05-21T17:14:24+00:00

    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:

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