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F1 is your friend. Imagine you'll be able access this through the online help: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-functions-by-category-5f91f4e9-7

• cm2187 11y ago
  F1 is actually my worse enemy, too close to F2 for my fat fingers. The offline help is fine for Excel functions. But where I work, 90% of the functions used are coming from addins, and even though they also have a documentation somewhere, it can't be reached with F1. Documentation is necessary but hints should be inline/contextual, like intellisense in visual studio. I don't want to have to leave what I am doing just to figure out which is the next argument in a function. Excel could use a powerful autocomplete like intellisense that gives you basic documentation inside the auto-complete. But Office is the "sleeping beauty" of Microsoft. A bit of an old and hairy beauty though.
• mistermann 11y ago
  Rarely does F1 work (like it used to) in most any MS app I've used in the last 5 years. I think they decided to just say fuck it and outsource that functionality to Google.
  • ZenoArrow 11y ago
    F1 works incredibly well in Visual Studio, especially if you're working with one of the flagship .NET languages. For example, highlight a core language element in your code, press F1 and you'll get specific help on it.