make it possible to get to the function reference for excel when

Your help for excel is now impossible to use. it always wants to connect to
the internet and use AI to figure out what you want. But I often want to
just look at the function referecne and check which lookup function or
whatever i want to use. In old versions of Excel this was easy to do. Now I
can't figure out how to do it. I want to do it offline, because I am not
always connected and, anyway, it's faster.

I'm spending more time looking up a function than actually using your
product, ant that makes we want to switch products

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Apparently, you can turn off the internet search by going to Tools
>Options>General Tab>Service Options and untick the 'Search online when
connected' box

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Bob Phillips

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"an unhappy excel user" <an unhappy excel [email protected]>
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> Your help for excel is now impossible to use. it always wants to connect
to
> the internet and use AI to figure out what you want. But I often want to
> just look at the function referecne and check which lookup function or
> whatever i want to use. In old versions of Excel this was easy to do. Now
I
> can't figure out how to do it. I want to do it offline, because I am not
> always connected and, anyway, it's faster.
>
> I'm spending more time looking up a function than actually using your
> product, ant that makes we want to switch products
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc