What controls choosing online v. offline Help?

[joeu2004]

What determines whether Help goes to online or
only offline resources?

I used to think that Help > Microsoft Excel Help
always went to online resource whereas the Office
Assistant used only offline resources, at least
for simple queries like help with a function.

But recently, I got into a situation where the
Office Assistant was always showing results from
online resources. There was a pull-down menu that
permitted me to redo the search using only offline
resources.

Now I am in the situation where both the Office
Assistant and Help > Microsoft Excel Help use only
offline resources.

I would like to limit the help operation to
offline resources, but I would like the option of
using online resources when I want to.

FYI, I am always online -- i.e, connected to cable
internet. I am not aware of anything I might have
done to change the Excel configuration between the
two situations.

 

[Mladen_Dj]

You can modify this in help menu on task pane under "online content
settings", you must restart excel to change take effect.

 

[joeu2004]

You can modify this in help menu on task pane under
"online content settings", you must restart excel
to change take effect.

Aha! Thanks.

That probably explains what happened, too. I suspect
I did play with the "online content settings", and I
simply forgot that I had. Klunk!