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Note If you change the font, background color, or text size of the Help topics in the Help window, the change also affects the font and background color when you view a Web page in Windows Internet Explorer.What do you want to do?

Change the size of text in the Help window

  1. In the main window of your Microsoft Office program, open Help.

    Keyboard shortcut To open Help, press F1.

    showOpen Help (using the mouse)Do the following in one of these Microsoft Office system programs or tools:

    Access, Excel, PowerPoint, or Word

    • Click Microsoft Office Program Name Help button image, where Program Name is the name of the program or tool you are currently in, for example, Microsoft Office Word Help.

    InfoPath, Outlook, OneNote, Project, Publisher, SharePoint Designer, Visio, or Clip Organizer

    • On the Help menu, click Program Name Help, where Program Name is the name of the program or tool you are currently in, for example, Microsoft Office InfoPath Help.
  2. Click Font size button image, and then click a text size.

Change the color, background color, or font of text in the Help window

  1. In Control Panel in Microsoft Windows XP, in Category view, click Network and Internet Connections, and then click Internet Options.
  2. On the General tab, click Accessibility, and then under Formatting, select the Ignore colors specified on Web pages check box.
  3. Click OK.
  4. In the Internet Properties dialog box, do one or both of the following:

    Change the color of the background or text in the Help window

    • On the General tab, click Colors, and then select the options you want.

    Change the font in the Help window

    • On the General tab, click Fonts, and then select the options you want.