Bring back the old help format!

[Guest]

It's very frustrating when using help now that it seems all answers are found
in tutorials on the web. They take forever to get through. Particularly in
Excel. I use functions quite often and used to rely on the help function to
help me determine which functions were available and how they worked. You
could find your function and a quick overview very quickly. It seems this
has disappeared, and all that's available in its place are tedious tutorials
which take forever to get to the point.

 

[JulieD]

Hi John

my suggestion is to use

groups.google.co.uk
or
groups.google.com

and use advance search - the only pain is that you have to type
microsoft.public.excel*
into the "Return only messages from the newsgroup" section every time

however if you'ld like to let MS know what you think send them an email at
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Gord Dibben]

John

You can turn off the on-line help feature.

See http://snipurl.com/88on for Norman Harker instructions.

Note Frank's post about installing older help files if you have access to
them.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP