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An Office Community is an online forum where you can interact with fellow Office users, get your questions answered, share ideas, and learn more about the Office products and technologies that interest you. This interaction with fellow Office users takes place in discussion groups (also known as newsgroups).

A discussion group is a place on the Internet (Internet: A worldwide network of thousands of smaller computer networks and millions of commercial, educational, government, and personal computers. The Internet is like an electronic city with virtual libraries, stores, art galleries, and so on.) where people interact by posting and reading messages about topics that are of interest to them and the rest of a community. Each discussion group contains a number of discussion threads, or a series of related messages. Each individual message either responds to an earlier message, or addresses the overall discussion group topic in some way. In contrast to e-mail messages that are sent to specific individuals and visible only to them, messages posted in a discussion group are visible and available to anyone and everyone.

Note  An Internet connection is required to access Office Communities.

Access to Office Communities

You can view or participate in Office Communities from within your Office program. To search a discussion group in an Office Community for a specific issue when you can't find the answer in Help, click Get answers from other users under Other places to look in the Search Results task pane.