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annonymous

What is the purpose of giving us the thread for exchanges, which have been
successfully terminated?

It would be much more useful if you gave us instructions how to get the
thread for future postings- would it not?
 
get the thread for future postings

David can't do that - prescience is his weakest suit <g>

Googling the groups is a wonderful way to dig up past discussions - since
most topics have been covered many times before, probably half of the posts
in the newsgroups (if not more) are unneccessary, if the posters would
search the archives.

Bernie
 
Hi
I think David is as 'lazy' as I am :-)
If you have a common question which has been answered successfully it's
quite easy to refer to and old thread. even better would be if the
originator of a question searches the Google archives prior to posting
a question (just a small dream....) as most questions have been
answered many times and it does take only some minutes to locate them
in the archive :-)
 
Almost every posting of mine has a link to my Search page.
At the top of my search page are rows of links, waving the cursor
over them provides more information. What else should we be
doing to get people to search before posting..

Those same links on the search.htm page are repeated later in the table.

Most of the information on that page is intended to be of interest to
anyone who needs information quickly (like if they were traveling) and
tries to avoid mention of Excel except for the search form to search
my pages..

To do your own searches of Google Groups particularly
related to Excel postings see my page
Excel Newsgroups & Searching Newsgroups
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm

and includes information on how to make shorter links based
on the url for the original post as archived at Google Groups.

Besides Google Groups for newsgroup archives, there is also
Google for web searches, the Microsoft Knowledge Base (mskb),
dictionaries where one can find "prescience" {The power to
foresee the future]

Most of the links I post, I've already posted before so am not
necessarily looking them up each time.

Practically everything I post either is already on my pages or the pages
get updated later. Look to web pages for details and organization,
look to newsgroups for hints at what to look for as well as short solutions.
Buy a book if you want to save time.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm
 
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