Re: What happened to context-sensitive Help in Word 2007?

It should work. Those that don't aren't finished yet. One of the "good
things" about online Help is the content can be updated at any time. This
includes the content that is displayed when you use a Help button (?) or
press F1 when instructed to do so for more information in a ScreenTip.

You noted that most of them take you to the general Help and not the
specific content. Those I just took a look at, Word Options, Font,
Paragraph, Footnotes, Themes, and SmartArt appear to be functioning
correctly. Which ones are not working?

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assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
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"GMc" <GMc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you clicked a Help (?) button in a Word dialog box in 2003 (& earlier),
you would get help for that dialog box, including a listing of all the
options, etc. in the dialog box and what they were for/how to use, etc. In
2007, many (most) times, clicking the Help button takes you to a generic
"Browse Word Help" page. Searching for the name of the dialog box or any
specific option name most often yields a ludicrous list of topics.

Is this a bug in 2007, or is Microsoft turning away from context sensitive
help?

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GMc
Phoenix


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