Office 2003 - Online Help Issues

Anyone know how to disable the online help for MS Office 2003? I find that
it takes forever... Can it be run locally from the hard drive?

I typed "disable on-line help" in Word 2003 Help and had nineteen hits, one
of which was:
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Turn Microsoft Office Online featured links on or off
Microsoft Office Online featured links are your source of up-to-date
information from Microsoft Office Online that will help you increase your
productivity with Office and provide you with the answers to questions
frequently asked about Office. Microsoft is constantly responding to
customer feedback, and these featured links are the best way to get new and
updated information about Office from within your Office program. These
links appear on the Getting Started and the Program Name Help task panes.
Your Office program will only access information from Microsoft Office
Online when you are connected to the Internet.

On the Help menu, click Microsoft Program Name Help to display the
Program Name Help task pane.
Under See also in the task pane, click Online Content Settings.
In the Service Options dialog box, select or clear the Show Microsoft Office
Online featured links check box.
The Show content and links from Microsoft Office Online check box must be
selected before you can select the Show Microsoft Office Online featured
links check box.

Notes

This setting applies to all of your Office programs.
The display of Microsoft Office Online featured links will not change in any
Office program that is open until you close the program and then start it
again.
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steve


"Steve Aschettino" wrote in message
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Anyone know how to disable the online help for MS Office 2003? I find
that
it takes forever... Can it be run locally from the hard drive?