System information

The Help Menu
In this section, you will learn about the commands in the Help menu. Many of the
commands in the Help menu are available in the Help task pane, which also con-
tains additional options for Outlook Help. Table B.1 shows the Outlook Help menu
commands.
Table B.1 Outlook Help Menu Commands
Menu Command Description
Microsoft Office Opens the Microsoft Outlook Help task pane. Also can be
Outlook H
elp opened by pressing the F1 key.
Show the O
ffice Shows one of the Assistant characters, such as Clippit, the
Assistant animated paper clip, or Rocky, the animated dog. You can
type Help questions for the Assistant, which searches through
the Outlook Help system.
M
icrosoft Office Online Opens Internet Explorer and
goes to the Microsoft Office
Online Web site.
C
ontact Us Opens Internet Explorer
and goes to a Web page
with links to Microsoft
support services. From this
page you can review how-
to articles; search
the Microsoft
KnowledgeBase, which is
a collection of support
articles for all Microsoft
products and technolo-
gies; contact Microsoft
product support for paid
support or free online
assistance; download
updates; and send com-
ments to Microsoft.
Check
for Updates Opens Internet Explorer
and goes to the Office
Update Web page. Office
Update can be used to automatically scan for updates the
same way the Windows Update Web site can scan for
Windows updates,.
Detect and R
epair Starts the repair process for Outlook. This utility runs auto-
matically and requires access to your Office CD. It can find
and fix many Outlook and Office problems.
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If you do not have addi-
tional assistants available,
you can add them by installing
them from the Office Tools feature
when adding features to Microsoft
Office 2003. See “Adding and
Removing Features” in Appendix
A, “Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Installation,” for information about
adding features to Office 2003.
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