Overview of the Office Assistant

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The Microsoft Office Assistant has been deprecated in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system.

The Office Assistant, the Office Assistant balloon, and all the items inside the balloon are controlled programmatically through the objects, properties, and methods of the Assistant object.

The following illustration shows the Office Assistant, the Office Assistant balloon, and all the programmable objects inside the balloon.

The Office Assistant, a Balloon object, and the programmable elements inside the balloon

For information about how you can make design-time and run-time changes to the Office Assistant, search Help for the following topics:

Using the Office Assistant

Creating and Modifying Balloons

Making Run-Time Modifications to Balloons

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