One of the most annoying features of Microsoft Office 2003 is the Office Assistant icon and its character referred to as Clippy. It interferes with the work of a user by acting as a ‘pop up’, attempting to anticipate questions about punctuation, grammar, spelling, or other topics as you are working in the program.
Without the Office Assistant
When the time comes to get help in a Microsoft Office program, I have three, less annoying options available within Microsoft Office.
- Every Microsoft Office 2003 program has a Help menu that is the last menu on the Menu Bar. The first command in the Help menu is a Microsoft Office Help command. Click that link and the Microsoft Office Task Pane opens to allow you to search for help within Microsoft Office or on the Internet.
- There is also the ‘Type a question for help’ bar on the upper right corner of an application. Type your help request in that box, and press the Enter key to display help results. Click Tools, click Customize. Right-click the ‘Type a question for help’ box. Check or uncheck the Show Ask a Question Box.
- The last way to get help within Microsoft Office is to simply press the F1 key. The Help Task Pane appears, waiting for your question to be typed in the box.
Dumping Office Assistant
Here are the steps to get rid of Clippy:
- Click Tools, click Customize.
- Right-click the ‘Type a question for help’ box in the upper-right corner of the program window
- Check the Show Ask a Question Box to display the box
- Uncheck the Show Ask a Question Box to remove the box
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Originally posted 2009-09-24 23:03:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
