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John Przybylski
 
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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.
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Gord Dibben
 
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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

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:53:54 +0800, "JulieD"
wrote:

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



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Cheers
JulieD
check out www.hcts.net.au/tipsandtricks.htm
...well i'm working on it anyway
"John Przybylski" <John wrote in
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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.



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