Using the Excel Help Topics

A more conventional way to get help is through the Contents and Index command on the Help menu. When you open the Excel Help system, you move through the topics listed to find the topic you're interested in.

There are several tabs in the Help system that enable you to use Help the way you want to. To access the Help system, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Help menu and select Contents and Index.

  2. Click the tab for the type of help you want (the tabs are explained in the next sections).

  3. If there's a list of topics, click the topic you're interested in; if not, type your topic and press Enter.

The following sections contain information about each tab.

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