There’s a little undocumented surprise on the right-click menu. Tucked away at the top is ‘Search the menus’ help. Sadly the underlying help system is still woefully inadequate.
Right-click in a document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook) and the top item isn’t ‘Cut’ but a “Search the menus” box.
This is different from the main ‘Search’ or ‘Copilot Search’ box on the title bar. “Search the menus” only finds Office SOME help results.
Searching for ‘Word’ in the right-click search box only finds Office help results, not the search term in the document itself. That’s what happens with the Search field on the title bar, like this, using the same document as the image above.
Many missing help topics
Microsoft refuses to spend the time and money to making the underlying help system properly comprehensive so customers can find the many options available ‘behind’ the menus and ribbons.
For years there’s been no effort by Microsoft to expand the results of the help search to include more than the basic Office features. As we’ve noted before, even typing the exact name of a feature doesn’t get a useful answer.
‘Tell me’ help now in Mac Office 365 with the same limitations
