Close.

I'm using Excel 2003, I should have stated that in the first message.
I found the "Online Content Settings..." in the See Also section of the Help
pane, and uncheck the "check online" check boxes.

Thanks.

"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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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.
|
| I have the Help information on my computer already. When I'm not
online, it
| looks to my local harddrive.
|
| I don't see a setting anywhere to have Help look locally.
|
| Where can I find it?
|
|