Re: Office Apps accessing the Internet

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From: Frank Kabel (frank.kabel_at_freenet.de)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:07:35 +0100

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

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany
"BigBirtha" <BigBirtha@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:9E1D93C0-384D-4048-A14F-67531356B630@microsoft.com...
> 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 (I’ve 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.)?
>
>
>

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