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About tips and messages from the Office Assistant
 

Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages.

The Office Assistant can answer your questions, offer tips, and provide help for a variety of features specific to the program you're using. The Assistant is shared by all Microsoft Office programs. Any changes you make to its options— such as the types of tips it displays— will affect the Assistant in all of your Office programs.

The Assistant can display Help in the following ways:

ShowHelp with wizards

You can get Help from the Assistant when you start some wizards. If you don't want help with wizards, you can turn it off. Not all wizards have Help provided by the Assistant.

ShowTips

The Assistant provides tips on how to use features or keyboard shortcuts more effectively. A tip is available when a yellow light bulb appears next to the Assistant. You can also have the Assistant display a tip each time you start Office.

Note  When the Assistant displays a Microsoft Outlook reminder, it can't display a tip at the same time. Click a button in the reminder to close it, and then the tip will appear.

ShowMessages

When the Assistant is turned on, program and system messages are displayed in the Assistant balloon by default. If you want, you can choose to see the messages in a dialog box instead.

Note   Not all languages support all features of the Office Assistant.

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