Bing now powers Help search in Microsoft Office

Looking to get the most out of Word or Excel? Now Bing can help.

At Bing, we’re always looking for ways to bring you the right information when and where you need it to help you get things done. Now when you need assistance using Microsoft Office programs, like Word and Excel, Bing delivers articles and tips directly to you to help you make the most of these powerful productivity tools.

The new Help feature works with Office 2007, 2010, 2013, as well as Office Online. Look for the Help icon in the top right corner of Office applications. For Office Online, use the “tell me” box to get help (see below). You can also search on the Office Support website for help.

So what do these improvements do for you?

More relevant results: Office now benefits from Bing’s relevance technologies. You’ll get help articles that are even more pertinent to your search. Bing also enables Office Help to better understand your search using advanced spelling recognition and context identification so you get the information you need.

Office now benefits from Bing’s relevance technologies. You’ll get help articles that are even more pertinent to your search. Bing also enables Office Help to better understand your search using advanced spelling recognition and context identification so you get the information you need. Fresher content: Because Bing constantly indexes the web, the most recent help articles always appear in the search results for Office Help.

Because Bing constantly indexes the web, the most recent help articles always appear in the search results for Office Help. Faster results: Bing performance optimizations enable Office Help to bring you results even faster than before.

Bing performance optimizations enable Office Help to bring you results even faster than before. Continuous improvement: As we regularly improve the functionality and accuracy of Bing search results, Office Help will benefit from these improvements automatically.

To see how Bing made Office Help better, compare Help search results using the old system and the new one, for the search “grayscale”:

Office Help results before Bing

Office Help results after Bing

Office Help searches are served by multiple Bing data centers around the world. In addition to fast response times, those data centers automatically balance and reroute traffic to ensure Office Help is always available.

More than 1.2 billion people use Office today. That’s 1 in 7 people on the planet and Bing is now there to help with the millions of help searches Office users do every day. With Bing now powering Office Help, you’ll always find the freshest, most relevant support and information when you need it.

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