How do I prevent F1 from opening help in Excel 2013, without using VBA?

Question

How do I prevent F1 from opening help in Excel 2013?

The only information I found elsewhere entailed using VBA or, for the whole system (I'm using Windows 8), editing the registry. I would prefer to avoid both of these options.

Answer 1

There's third-party software that can do this. They can disable it only when Excel is open or map it to something more useful like F2. I like AutoHotkey. My code to replace F1 with F2 when Excel is active is as follows:

#IfWinActive ahk_class XLMAIN
F1::F2
#IfWinActive

I don't know of any native option in Excel.