Hi
one reason for this (AFAIK): The Online help functionality

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

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I have a Windows XPPro workstation with Symantec Norton Firewall
2003, &
Microsoft Office XPPro.

1) Why do the Office applications need to access the Internet when
they are
started (excluding Outlook)?
2) How do I stop Microsoft Office XP Pro (Excel/Word) from accessing
the
Internet at the application or O/S level, while not being inhibited
from
using the products (Ive tried to disallow Excel and Word from
accessing the
Internet by blocking it with Norton Firewall, but it seems to cause
problems
while opening those documents.)?