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Got questions while using Excel 2013? Watch this video to learn how to access and use the Excel Help feature. Excel Help is a tool in Excel 2013 that provides users information on various Help topics such as what's new, keyboard shortcuts, getting free training, learning Excel basics, using Excel web app, and tips for using Excel in tablets.

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Welcome back to our course on Excel 2013. In this section, I’m going to look at Help. And we’ve already seen Help a little bit earlier on when I pointed out that you can access Help by pressing the F1 key. Generally speaking in Excel 2013, to access Help if you look at the top right hand corner of the Window you’re working in there will almost always be a little question mark sign. And if you click on the question mark sign, you’ll see the Excel Help. So let’s click on this one and see what the Help looks like.

Now the page that you see here is what’s usually referred to as the Excel Help Home Page. And from here you have access to Help in a number of ways. The icons that you see here are actually very useful for a start because they give you links through to very useful, very popular and commonly used Help topics. So there’s “See what’s new” which will take you through the “What’s new for Excel 2013”. So if I click on that one, you’ll see information that we saw earlier about what’s new. We also have help in terms of keyboard shortcuts. So this will take you through an explanation of the keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2013 and a very detailed list of them. And the other links here include getting access to free training, learning Excel basics, using the Excel web App, and then tips for using tablets. So this has got a lot of the touch screen information on it and so on.

Above that you have some of the most popular search topics. So, Microsoft accumulates information about what subjects people search for and these are some of the most commonly used ones. And then we have a More button here that can take us through to more Help topics.

Now when you’re using Help, you’re quite often going to be looking for a particular thing. And so the basis of Help in Excel 2013 is that you’re going to use the search facility to find the term that you want to find some help on. So let me just put a term in here. I’m going to put in the term Touch and then in order to find help on touch you can either just press the Enter key or click on the little magnifying glass icon there. Click on that and you get links to a number of articles about touch. Now the ones that are links you’ll see as you hover over them you’ll see they’re underlined, the color changes, and they become active links to the Excel Help system. So if I move down the page here, there’s another one, find and start Office applications, use Windows 8 Narrator, view what’s new in Excel 2013 some of the topics that we’ve talked about already actually. And if I go to Office Touch Guide that takes me to the document that I talked about in an earlier section.

Now one of the important things about using Help in Excel 2013, in fact in all of Office 2013, is that it’s a browser-based system so you have Back and Forward buttons as here. So if I want to go back to the previous page I click the Back button. And if I want to go forward again I press the Forward button.

And there’s also a Home button to take me back to the Excel Help Home. And then there’s a Print button. There’s also a button here, the one with the capital A, which enables me to get the help in a larger text size.

That’s for people who with some sort of visual impairment or working in a situation where it’s difficult to read the Help at its default font size. So that’s a Toggle. You can switch it back to the regular size like that. So that’s the basics of finding your way around Excel 2013 Help.

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