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?

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?
|
|

You can create a short-cut to local help and use it whether or not you are
connected:

Should be called something like:

XLMAIN10.CHM or XLMAIN11.CHM


XLADDIN.CHM for addins
XLMACRO.CHM for macros


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Gary''s Student - gsnu2007a


"Margaret Bartley" wrote:

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?

If you have Excel 2007, you can click on Office button | Excel Options |
Trust Center | Trust Center Settings | Privacy Options | uncheck the
"Search Microsoft Office Online for Help content when I'm connected to
the Internet" box | OK.

Margaret Bartley wrote:

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?

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

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

--
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?
|
|

Wow! This is so cool! I didn't know I could do this.

thanks!

"Gary''s Student" wrote in message
...
You can create a short-cut to local help and use it whether or not you are
connected:

Should be called something like:

XLMAIN10.CHM or XLMAIN11.CHM


XLADDIN.CHM for addins
XLMACRO.CHM for macros


--
Gary''s Student - gsnu2007a


"Margaret Bartley" wrote:

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?