- MS Word Basics
- Word - Home
- Word - Getting Started
- Word - Explore Window
- Word - Backstage View
- Word - Entering Text
- Word - Move Around
- Word - Save Document
- Word - Opening a Document
- Word - Closing Document
- Word - Context Help
- Editing Documents
- Word - Insert Text
- Word - Select Text
- Word - Delete Text
- Word - Move Text
- Word - Copy & Paste
- Word - Find & Replace
- Word - Spell Check
- Word - Zoom In-Out
- Word - Special Symbols
- Word - Undo Changes
- Formatting Text
- Word - Setting Text Fonts
- Word - Text Decoration
- Word - Change Text Case
- Word - Change Text Color
- Word - Text Alignments
- Word - Indent Paragraphs
- Word - Create Bullets
- Word - Set Line Spacing
- Word - Borders and Shades
- Word - Set Tabs
- Word - Apply Formatting
- Formatting Pages
- Word - Adjust Page Margins
- Word - Header and Footer
- Word - Add Page Numbers
- Word - Insert Page Breaks
- Word - Insert Blank Page
- Word - Cover Pages
- Word - Page Orientation
- Working with Tables
- Word - Create a Table
- Word - Rows & Columns
- Word - Move a Table
- Word - Resize a Table
- Word - Merging Cells
- Word - Split a Table
- Word - Split Cells
- Word - Add Formula
- Word - Borders & Shades
- Advanced Operations
- Word - Quick Styles
- Word - Use Templates
- Word - Use Graphics
- Word - Auto Correction
- Word - Auto Formatting
- Word - Table of Contents
- Word - Preview Documents
- Word - Printing Documents
- Word - Email Documents
- Word - Translate Document
- Word - Compare Document
- Word - Document Security
- Word - Set Watermark
- Word Useful Resources
- Word - Quick Guide
- Word - Useful Resources
- Word - Discussion
Context Help in Word 2010
In this chapter, we will discuss Context Help in Word 2010. Microsoft Office provides more than one method for calling up Help when you need it. We will discuss a few important methods in this chapter −
Context Sensitive Help
This is the easiest way of getting help about any of the options available at word screen. You just need to bring your mouse pointer over an option and wait for 2 seconds, MS Word will pop-up a small balloon help giving you detail about the operation. If word has additional help for that option, then it gives the option Press F1 for more help as shown below when you bring your mouse pointer over the color fill option. You can press the F1 key to get further help on this option.
Using F1 Key
You can press the F1 key when you are in the middle of doing something and Office will display the various categories of help as shown below. You can either search a keyword using the Search option or you can browse the listed categories to go through a topic in detail −
Using Help Icon
You can also have similar help window as shown above, by clicking the Help icon located just above the right edge of the ribbon as shown below −
Using Help Option
You can communicate with Microsoft using the Help option available under the File tab.
As shown above, you can use Microsoft Office Help to launch the Help window, or Getting Started link to go to Microsoft’s official website, otherwise use the Contact us option to contact Microsoft via email or phone.