Allow Word help to be synchronized with its table of contents.

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When looking for information in online help, it is very useful be able to see
where a topic exists in the help's table of contents. This helps me organize
knowledge mentally, and know where to look for similar types of information
in the future. I should be able to search for and find a topic, and then be
able to see where that topic resides in the table of contents. Word's help
used to have this feature, so to see it not there anymore is discouraging. Is
there any chance this feature is just hidden somehow, and I haven't been able
to find it?

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I am working in Microsoft Office Word 2003 - Part of Microsoft Basic Ed.
2003- and on my Word Help section there is a table of contents (located under
the "Search for" on the "Assistance" task pane of Word Help. You don't give
your version of Word, however you might want to check in the Word
Help/Assistance section (or whatever its called in your version) of your Word
program for the table of contents.

Hope this helps.
 
Sorry, I didn't make this very clear. I can find the table of contents and
view topics. That's not the problem. The problem is, once I find a topic via
some method *other than* the table of contents (via the index, for example),
I would like to have some way to see where that topic exists in the table of
contents. Is there some simple way to do that? I'm using Word 2003. Thank you.

Jim
 
Hi Shauna,

My concern is not about navigation within a document, but within the online
help system. Let's say I was looking for help on feature X in Word, so I
press F1, type "feature X" in the "Search for" field, and press enter to
initiate the search. Then let's say I find the topic in the online help
system that describes what I want to know.

Now what I'd like to do is see where that topic exists in the table of
contents. It would be nice to be able to click a button or something that
navigates to the location of the feature X topic in the table of contents so
that I can see where I am in the online help system. That's what I don't know
how to do in the help system for Word 2003.

Jim
 
Hi Jim,

In Office 2003 you can get the tie in to the table
of contents only if you search with the scope set
to Microsoft Office online (enabled through Help=>Customer Feedback)

If you then search from the 'ask a question here' box for
the term readability , for example and set the
Search area to be MS Office Online, rather than Offline
when you look at the results there should be a hyperlink
under the offline help (blue question mark) items that
shows where in the Help structure items are located.
If you click on that item the table of contents should open
and jump to that referenced point.

In this example, uner the result 'Readability Scores' click
on the link below it that's titled Help=>Spelling and Grammar

It would be nice if they had that work when you select
Offline help as well.
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Hi Shauna,

My concern is not about navigation within a document, but within the online
help system. Let's say I was looking for help on feature X in Word, so I
press F1, type "feature X" in the "Search for" field, and press enter to
initiate the search. Then let's say I find the topic in the online help
system that describes what I want to know.

Now what I'd like to do is see where that topic exists in the table of
contents. It would be nice to be able to click a button or something that
navigates to the location of the feature X topic in the table of contents so
that I can see where I am in the online help system. That's what I don't know
how to do in the help system for Word 2003.

Jim >>
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