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Using the Office Assistant to Find an Answer
To assist you in quickly and efficiently getting comprehensive help on any Office feature, you can use the Office Assistant. The Office Assistant appears in the application window as an animated graphic with a balloon attached. The balloon contains shortcuts for accessing additional topics and tips. When you display the Office Assistant, the balloon automatically appears. In addition, the Assistant automatically provides tips and help on tasks as you work. By default, the Office Assistant moves when it is in the way.
You can query the Office Assistant directly with any questions you may have regarding any Office program. When you query the Office Assistant, help topics related to your question appear. You can select any available help topic to view additional information. If there are more topics than can be displayed at one time, you can use the See more and the See previous commands to scroll through the available topics.
The Office Assistant provides the best answers when you enter a complete sentence or question in a query, rather than just a word or phrase. For example, it is better to enter How do I print a document? rather than just printing. The last query remains in the Office Assistant until you create a new query or exit the open Office program.
Finding an answer to a question
Read through the steps:. If you would like to complete these steps in an actual Word file, create a new Word document and then proceed through the steps.(Follow this link for instructions on creating a new Office file.)
Practice the Skill
- If necessary, open the Office Assistant by clicking the Help menu and choosing the help
command for the program you are using.
The Office Assistant animated graphic should appear. (If the Office Assistant does not appear, learn how to enable the Office Assistant.) - Click the Office Assistant.
The Office Assistant balloon appears. - Type How do I print a document?
The query appears in the text box. - Click Search.
A list of pertinent help topics appears. - Click Print a document.
The corresponding help window with the answer to the question opens. - Click the Close button
on the help window title bar.
The help window closes.
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