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Use the Office Assistant
1. Click anywhere on the Office Assistant icon. The Office
Assistant displays a What Would You Like to Do text box.
Want to see your Office Assistant do tricks? Right-click the assistant
and select Animate. Each different Office Assistant performs a dif-
ferent series of tricks.
2.
Type a request in the text box, as shown in Figure 1-7.
Then, press Enter.
3. The results of your request appear in a Search Results task
pane on the right side of your screen (see Figure 1-8).
Click any link in the Search Results task pane to discover
the answer to your request.
4. Optionally, drag the Office Assistant to a different part
of your screen if it’s in your way. In many cases, the
Office Assistant moves out of the way automatically.
Right-click the Office Assistant and select Choose Assistant, which
displays the Office Assistant dialog box. From the Gallery tab, you
can select a different assistant than the default paper clip. Options
include a robot, a magician, a cat, a dog, and others.
5.
Click the Close box in the upper-right corner of the
Search Results task pane to put it away.
6. Right-click the Office Assistant and choose Hide to tem-
porarily hide the Office Assistant.
To permanently hide the Office Assistant, right-click the Office
Assistant, choose Options, and remove the check mark from the Use
the Office Assistant option.
Figure 1-7: Asking help from the Office Assistant
Figure 1-8: The Search Results task pane
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