In Excel help, type: "switch online help off"

That will give you the instructions. I couldn't paste them here, sorry

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"Margaret Bartley" wrote in message ...
|I have a dial-up connection, and it's really irritating when I click on the
| Help button, to look up the syntax of a function, and Excel tries to look it
| up online. It takes about three minutes, and, more often than not, crashes.
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| I have the Help information on my computer already. When I'm not online, it
| looks to my local harddrive.
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| I don't see a setting anywhere to have Help look locally.
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| Where can I find it?
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