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using jochen's bridge helps a lot. i'm sorry to see you go, but i really
wish every mvp would boycott the useless forums. then microsoft may listen. i doubt it, but you never now. but, these were some of my original thoughts on moving from nntp to web based forums: 1. For those of us that participate a lot, mvp's, beta team members and just people that like to help, the web based forums offer no way to: a. Search for messages posted by the "me", across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they're all in my sent folder. you know you posted an excel answer somewhere, but you visit half a dozen excel forums. find the post in the web based forums. good luck. b. No way to search for key words in forum posts across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they are all in a folder. c . Save forum posts for future reference. i. I can drag them into a folder on my pc and have them forever. ii. In a web based forum, what do I do, drag a hundred links to posts scattered throughout the internet? Then, how do I search these by poster or keyword? navigation: 1. i can see and manipulate more than 30 posts and view them in the preview pane of the nntp client without having to open the posts in the browser window and then click the back button to get back to the home page. 2. i could really care less how many views a post has, that is useless information. 3. it's slow, then they use transition effects to make it appear even slower. 4. then they have their damn ad's in there taking time to download. 5. they can't even program the web pages correctly. this makes a lot of senseShowing 21 to 40 of 29) -- Gary Keramidas Excel 2003 -- Gary Keramidas Excel 2003 "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message ... I'm still hoping that a reasonable number of news servers will continue to carry the newsgroups, and that therefore the groups will be able to continue providing help to users. I'm not currently planning on shifting to the MS forums, so to any who don't plan to stay here in the newsgroups, thanks for all your help over the years. -- David Biddulph "Ron de Bruin" wrote in message ... Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interface http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm |
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Ron, thanks for the link, although like some of the others, I am not so sure
I will be as active on that site as this one. This whole thing is probably part of the tiff between MS and Google. I want to thank all of the professionals and other sharpies who have assisted me from time to time and I hope that I have helped others to learn VBA a little better. I am still learning and might not live long enough to learn it all. Special thanks to You, Chip Pearson, Tom Ogilvy, Jim Tomlinson, Bob Phillips, Gord Dibben and a host of other contributors. "Ron de Bruin" wrote in message ... Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interface http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm |
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Yes, that is very true Ron - it is a sad day.
I am attempting to set up the bridge (following your useful article), but still experiencing some difficulties. The web based format, I detest, and if I cannot set up the bridge successfully, then I guess I will be an even less frequent poster in these NG's. My contributions have been severely restricted this past 12 months, as i have been caring for an elderly relative. She is now safely installed in a nursing home, where she can receive the 24 hour care she needs. I was just looking forward to contributing more - and MS have pulled the plug. A very big thank you to all the people who have been so generous in the help that they have given me over the past 13 years. -- Regards Roger Govier Ron de Bruin wrote: Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interface http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums |
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I would just like to add my thanks for all the help you guys have given me
over the last couple of years. You have been BRILLIANT I will be sorry to see it close, I would like to hope that there will be access to archives as searching this site also provided me with alot of answers to. Take care everyone Winnie "JLGWhiz" wrote: Ron, thanks for the link, although like some of the others, I am not so sure I will be as active on that site as this one. This whole thing is probably part of the tiff between MS and Google. I want to thank all of the professionals and other sharpies who have assisted me from time to time and I hope that I have helped others to learn VBA a little better. I am still learning and might not live long enough to learn it all. Special thanks to You, Chip Pearson, Tom Ogilvy, Jim Tomlinson, Bob Phillips, Gord Dibben and a host of other contributors. "Ron de Bruin" wrote in message ... Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interface http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm . |
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"Ron de Bruin" wrote...
Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. .... This represents a thorough lack of understanding of how USENET/NNTP newsgroups work. Microsoft's own msnews.microsoft.com servers may no longer exist, so the microsoft.* newsgroups would no longer be found there, but the microsoft.* newsgroups have been around so long that most of the larger ISPs carry them. As long as other ISPs carry them, they continue to exist. Microsoft killed off microsoft.public.excel.worksheetfunctions (note only 3 periods) in favor of microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions (note 4 periods) years ago, but the former continues to have traffic, though much reduced from when Microsoft servers hosted it. These newsgroups will continue to exist, and they may effectively become Google-hosted, but they won't disappear any time soon. |
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Technically correct. The newsgroups will continue to exist on other news
servers. But the newsgroups have been in decline for some time, at least in terms of posting volume. I think we'll see the same decline in these groups as we saw in the three-dot microsoft.public.excel.worksheetfunctions group. It's too bad, because the web forums are less efficient than the newsgroups (following the pattern established by the conversion from Office 2003 to 2007), and poorly conceived and implemented. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier Peltier Technical Services, Inc. http://peltiertech.com/ On 6/1/2010 11:46 AM, Harlan Grove wrote: "Ron de wrote... Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. ... This represents a thorough lack of understanding of how USENET/NNTP newsgroups work. Microsoft's own msnews.microsoft.com servers may no longer exist, so the microsoft.* newsgroups would no longer be found there, but the microsoft.* newsgroups have been around so long that most of the larger ISPs carry them. As long as other ISPs carry them, they continue to exist. Microsoft killed off microsoft.public.excel.worksheetfunctions (note only 3 periods) in favor of microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions (note 4 periods) years ago, but the former continues to have traffic, though much reduced from when Microsoft servers hosted it. These newsgroups will continue to exist, and they may effectively become Google-hosted, but they won't disappear any time soon. |
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On May 31, 3:04*pm, "Ron de Bruin" wrote:
Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years.. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interfacehttp://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums -- Regards Ron de Bruinhttp://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm speaking of the "new" forum ... where the heck is it?? numerous searches have found lots of product links, references to already replied questions, but nothing like "our" simple Q&A list format here which is what I'm seeking - or is the "improvement" a scattered shotgun approach without any centralized list of recently posted Q&A? |
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is the "improvement" a scattered shotgun approach
without any centralized list of recently posted Q&A? Yes, it's pretty much scattered around! Here's a link for the Office applications and for Windows operating systems and a few odds and ends. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...-US/categories -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Jef Gorbach" wrote in message ... On May 31, 3:04 pm, "Ron de Bruin" wrote: Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interfacehttp://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums -- Regards Ron de Bruinhttp://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm speaking of the "new" forum ... where the heck is it?? numerous searches have found lots of product links, references to already replied questions, but nothing like "our" simple Q&A list format here which is what I'm seeking - or is the "improvement" a scattered shotgun approach without any centralized list of recently posted Q&A? |
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On Jun 1, 9:50*pm, "T. Valko" wrote:
is the "improvement" a scattered shotgun approach without any centralized list of recently posted Q&A? Yes, it's pretty much scattered around! Here's a link for the Office applications and for Windows operating systems and a few odds and ends. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...-US/categories -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP Anyway to find Today's questions relating to VBA in Excel? OTOH looks like Google at least is maintaining this newsgroup regardless of Msft's intent so wont really matter as long as WE (and google/usenet) refuse to budge lol |
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Anyway to find Today's questions relating to VBA in Excel?
The ngs seem to be still "operating" as usual so far today. So you can just look at the Programming ng. The new forums don't have a category dedicated to just VBA for Excel. There's a general category for VBA for Office: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ceprog/threads -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Jef Gorbach" wrote in message ... On Jun 1, 9:50 pm, "T. Valko" wrote: is the "improvement" a scattered shotgun approach without any centralized list of recently posted Q&A? Yes, it's pretty much scattered around! Here's a link for the Office applications and for Windows operating systems and a few odds and ends. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...-US/categories -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP Anyway to find Today's questions relating to VBA in Excel? OTOH looks like Google at least is maintaining this newsgroup regardless of Msft's intent so wont really matter as long as WE (and google/usenet) refuse to budge lol |
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