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In this video, you will learn how to find Help in MS Word 2013 by simply clicking the question mark at the upper right hand of your document or by using F1. There are two versions of Help namely the Online Help in which you need an internet connection and the Offline Help that?s stored on your computer. You will see several Help topics from the Homepage of the Online Help like Learn Word Basics which is the great place to start for beginners, Keyboard Shortcuts and a lot more which you can access through the search bar.

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on Word 2013. In this section, we’re going to look at how to find Help in Word 2013 and really there is a sort of universal way throughout this version of Word for finding Help and it’s different from earlier versions.

If you’ve used even Word 2010, for instance, you’ll be used to seeing a Help Link in Backstage View in the list of options on the left. You don’t actually get that any longer with Word 2013. And in fact what you’re looking for throughout is this question mark. It’s usually in pretty much the same place and there is an equivalent keyboard shortcut of F1. So if I click on this I will get Help. Now there are really two versions.

There’s the online version of Help, the one for which you need an internet connection. And there’s the offline version that’s stored on your computer. As with most of the major manufacturers of software nowadays, the quality and quantity of offline help has reduced drastically with Word 2013 in particular, Office 2013 in general. So the offline help is very restricted. I’ll show you the offline Help in just a moment. But really to get comprehensive help, you need to be online you need to have an active internet connection. If I click on this question mark symbol here now, the online Help appears.

Now to switch between online and offline, next to the word Word Help there’s a little drop down there. Word Help from Office.com, that’s the live version, that’s the online help. And then Word Help from your computer gives you the offline one. We’ll look at the offline in just a moment. Let’s stick with the Office.com, the online Help.

Now the Help is browser based. So if you choose a topic, let’s suppose you go for the first one here, “See what’s new” which is the What’s new for Word 2013. I go into that topic. We saw this of course earlier on in the course, most of these. When you finish reading that, if you click on the Back button, that takes you back to the previous page. If in fact you’ve been beyond that, you’ve got a Forward button. So it works exactly the same as a normal browser interface.

There’s a Home button, there’s a Print button, and there’s also a button here where we can switch to using large text. So if you have trouble reading what’s on the screen there, you can switch to larger text and switch back. So when you’ve finished on a particular page you can click on Home or click to go back.

Now on that Home page, you’ve got links to what’s new. You’ve got links to keyboard shortcuts.

Now a lot of people still like to use keyboard shortcuts. I appreciate many of you if you’re using touch, probably not particularly interested in keyboard shortcuts. But there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Word 2013. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on keyboard shortcuts during the course. I will point out some of the more common ones. But there is a very adequate Help documentation on those here and you can access it from the Home page of the online Help.

Now another important option on the Home page is this one, Learn Word basics. If you’re new to Word, then this is a great place to start. It will take you through all of the basics like choosing a template, opening a document, and so on. You’ll find that it won’t go into as much detail as I do, but it obviously takes a different approach in places and it gives links through to other useful documents such as this one which is the touch guide.

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