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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

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

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Bob Phillips

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