Too true! Although, if you enable online Help, there are many more options.
The problem is that they're not succinct, easy-to-read Help topics; instead,
they're often narrated tutorials with practice files to download.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"grammatim" wrote in message
...
He should be aware, though, that even when his Word2007 Help is
working perfectly, it won't give him much help. (See many threads
mentioning how Help has deteriorated over the years.)
On Dec 23, 12:02 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
This seems to be an impossible problem to search for (as you've no doubt
found) since all combinations of "Help" and "not responding,"
"unavailable,"
"not working," etc., just send you to places to get help when the
application is not responding. The only advice I've found is to uninstall
and reinstall, which clearly doesn't help.
I wonder if you could get better help here if you would post in the
word.application.errors newsgroup, which has less traffic and is
frequented
by people more knowledgeable about troubleshooting, well, application
errors.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Nick" wrote in message
...
Thank you, I have Word 2007 and Diagnostics found no problems
anywhere! -
but
Help still is 'Not responding' I would be most grateful for any other
ideas
to get it going.
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Nick
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't really change anything. In Word
2003,
use Help | Detect and Repair. In Word 2007, Office Button | Word
Options
|
Resources | run Microsoft Office Diagnostics.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Nick" wrote in message
...
I have uninstalled Office and reinstalled it with no change in the
problem.
If this is not what you mean by 'repairing' could you please explain.
Many
thanks.
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Nick
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Have you tried repairing the Office installation?
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Nick" wrote:
I am making no progress with my problem concerning Word help.
The main menu for help appears after pressing F1, but when I
double
click on
an item, a black box appears arround the item, the circle starts
revolving
and nothing else happens.
If I then click again on the item, '(Not responding)' appears at
the
top
after Help, the menu goes faint, and I can only proceed by
exiting.
This fault also exists in PowerPoint and One Note, but help is
working
OK in
Excel.
Please can someone help.
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Nick-