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Hi
This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) but am unable to locate the question. the same thing happened when I posted a question a couple of months ago. Is this a common problem? Many thanks for any advice. Simon. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.newusers |
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Hi Simon there have been problems on the site for the last two days (May 3rd
and May 4th) so your posting may have got lost and yes, unfortunately, it is a regular occurrence. If my comments have helped please hit Yes. "Simon" wrote: Hi This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) but am unable to locate the question. the same thing happened when I posted a question a couple of months ago. Is this a common problem? Many thanks for any advice. Simon. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.newusers |
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"Simon" wrote:
This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. And thanks to a decision by Microsoft, to be implemented some time this summer, this will become the only place to ask for help -- especially if your problem is that posting through this site does now work. There will be no alterative way to post such an inquiry. There will be no alternative archives to search to confirm or refute a claim that a posting failed or is lost. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) I had no problem finding a posting by Simon (not simon67) dated 4/4/2010 (not 4/5) 8:26am PT with the subject "conditional format cells by date" in the forum "Excel General Questions" (NG microsoft.public.excel.misc). Using the MS Discussion Groups web interface, I found it by clicking on your name, then "Recent Posts by this user". However, given the unreliability of the MSDG search feature, it would not surprise if your search fails, at least intermittently. I was also unable to coerce the Google Groups search feature to find your articles, even when I provided the message ID. I did not even find it manually. But that might have been my oversight, since someone had posted a response using GG. For that reason, I am unable to offer an HTTP link to help you find the thread. Perhaps the following will help: From: Subject: conditional format cells by date Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:27:02 -0700 Message-ID: Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.misc Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.excel.misc:911206 The Xref line provides the article number on the MSnews server. I had already captured your 4/4 inquiry from the MSnews server. But I just verified that the article is still there. Is this a common problem? It is a common problem that people do not know how to use the MS Discussion Groups web interface effectively. It is also a common problem that the MSDG search feature is unreliable. So it is not uncommon for users of the MSDG web interface to lose track of their own postings. There is no panacea. As I noted above, GG search often fails (for me). And if you set up a newsreader (like Outlook Express) to read from the MSnews server, your ability to keep track of your postings will depend on your own computer skills. ----- original message ----- "Simon" wrote: Hi This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) but am unable to locate the question. the same thing happened when I posted a question a couple of months ago. Is this a common problem? Many thanks for any advice. Simon. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.newusers |
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I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010) [....] I had no problem finding a posting [...] dated 4/4/2010 (not 4/5) 8:26am PT Sorry. Obviously, the article I found is dated May 4, not Apr 4. Is that what you meant by "4/5/2010" (d/m/yyyy format)? ----- original message ----- "Joe User" wrote: "Simon" wrote: This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. And thanks to a decision by Microsoft, to be implemented some time this summer, this will become the only place to ask for help -- especially if your problem is that posting through this site does now work. There will be no alterative way to post such an inquiry. There will be no alternative archives to search to confirm or refute a claim that a posting failed or is lost. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) I had no problem finding a posting by Simon (not simon67) dated 4/4/2010 (not 4/5) 8:26am PT with the subject "conditional format cells by date" in the forum "Excel General Questions" (NG microsoft.public.excel.misc). Using the MS Discussion Groups web interface, I found it by clicking on your name, then "Recent Posts by this user". However, given the unreliability of the MSDG search feature, it would not surprise if your search fails, at least intermittently. I was also unable to coerce the Google Groups search feature to find your articles, even when I provided the message ID. I did not even find it manually. But that might have been my oversight, since someone had posted a response using GG. For that reason, I am unable to offer an HTTP link to help you find the thread. Perhaps the following will help: From: Subject: conditional format cells by date Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:27:02 -0700 Message-ID: Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.misc Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.excel.misc:911206 The Xref line provides the article number on the MSnews server. I had already captured your 4/4 inquiry from the MSnews server. But I just verified that the article is still there. Is this a common problem? It is a common problem that people do not know how to use the MS Discussion Groups web interface effectively. It is also a common problem that the MSDG search feature is unreliable. So it is not uncommon for users of the MSDG web interface to lose track of their own postings. There is no panacea. As I noted above, GG search often fails (for me). And if you set up a newsreader (like Outlook Express) to read from the MSnews server, your ability to keep track of your postings will depend on your own computer skills. ----- original message ----- "Simon" wrote: Hi This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) but am unable to locate the question. the same thing happened when I posted a question a couple of months ago. Is this a common problem? Many thanks for any advice. Simon. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.newusers |
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Sorry. Obviously, the article I found is dated May 4, not Apr 4. Is that what you meant by "4/5/2010" (d/m/yyyy format)? And my misreading of the date (I assumed m/d/yyyy format) was the reason why I failed to find the thread in Google Groups. The link to the your posting is: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c5ac3ab5212dec The link to the entire thread is: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...68f9d7ddf9aa4# ----- original message ----- "Joe User" wrote: I wrote: I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010) [....] I had no problem finding a posting [...] dated 4/4/2010 (not 4/5) 8:26am PT Sorry. Obviously, the article I found is dated May 4, not Apr 4. Is that what you meant by "4/5/2010" (d/m/yyyy format)? ----- original message ----- "Joe User" wrote: "Simon" wrote: This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. And thanks to a decision by Microsoft, to be implemented some time this summer, this will become the only place to ask for help -- especially if your problem is that posting through this site does now work. There will be no alterative way to post such an inquiry. There will be no alternative archives to search to confirm or refute a claim that a posting failed or is lost. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) I had no problem finding a posting by Simon (not simon67) dated 4/4/2010 (not 4/5) 8:26am PT with the subject "conditional format cells by date" in the forum "Excel General Questions" (NG microsoft.public.excel.misc). Using the MS Discussion Groups web interface, I found it by clicking on your name, then "Recent Posts by this user". However, given the unreliability of the MSDG search feature, it would not surprise if your search fails, at least intermittently. I was also unable to coerce the Google Groups search feature to find your articles, even when I provided the message ID. I did not even find it manually. But that might have been my oversight, since someone had posted a response using GG. For that reason, I am unable to offer an HTTP link to help you find the thread. Perhaps the following will help: From: Subject: conditional format cells by date Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:27:02 -0700 Message-ID: Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.misc Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.excel.misc:911206 The Xref line provides the article number on the MSnews server. I had already captured your 4/4 inquiry from the MSnews server. But I just verified that the article is still there. Is this a common problem? It is a common problem that people do not know how to use the MS Discussion Groups web interface effectively. It is also a common problem that the MSDG search feature is unreliable. So it is not uncommon for users of the MSDG web interface to lose track of their own postings. There is no panacea. As I noted above, GG search often fails (for me). And if you set up a newsreader (like Outlook Express) to read from the MSnews server, your ability to keep track of your postings will depend on your own computer skills. ----- original message ----- "Simon" wrote: Hi This may not be the correct place to post this question but I cannot find any other access to appropriate 'help'. Is anyone able to tell me whether my recent question has been posted on the excel disscusion forum? I posted it yesterday (4/5/2010), user name simon67, with a subject of 'Conditional format using date' (or something very similar) but am unable to locate the question. the same thing happened when I posted a question a couple of months ago. Is this a common problem? Many thanks for any advice. Simon. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.newusers |
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