Hi Rafael:
Yes, I am talking about Word's "online help". Office 2008 help is almost
entirely online. Only the simplistic "Getting started" topics are actually
contained in the application.
This is new in Office 2008. Unless you allow the help system to go online
to get the content, you will see almost nothing. Most topics will be
missing. The idea is to allow Microsoft to dynamically update the help.
When you access the help online, they can track which topics users are
requesting. If they get 100 requests for "Regular Expressions", they will
assign an author to write the topic and it will magically appear.
In fact, the Author has already been assigned, and he tries to look in here
when he gets time, to see what people are asking about. And since I have
his email address, I mercilessly pepper the poor fellow with requests
The Help>Send Feedback command ends up in the same group. Any feedback that
is not simply abusive is likely to result in a help topic being added.
When *I* Googled "regex" I got 6.9 million articles returned. Any of the
top ten will get you started. I am sorry, but there needs to be a limit to
how much work it is fair and reasonable to ask the MVPs to do for you. At
University, you would spend a couple of semesters learning Regular
Expressions as part of a computer science degree. I do not think it is
reasonable to ask us to post the content of that course here.
Depending on "how" you send the screenshot, yes it is "possible" to send a
screenshot to a newsgroup. However, I strongly suggest that you do not do
that here! 1) You WILL get screamed at by the Thought Police and the 'Net
Nazis. The crescendo will be deafening. 2) Most people who spend a lot of
time in these groups routinely block any post with an attachment. This
prevents the silly little children who think we work for Microsoft from
sending us a copy of their latest virus.
So please don't add any screenshots. I don't see any post containing an
attachment of any kind; and you will get flamed
Cheers
Hi John.
OK. All five.
Are you naming Word Help "online help" below? I think Word Help is within
the Word program, and not something that's accessed online, on the web.
As I understand it, There are four sources for help with the Mac programs I
use:
The application's Help.
Newsgroup correspondence (as we're doing here).
MVP publications online.
Apple help topics.
Also, would you please give me a lead to an explanation of RegEx. In my
post below, in the three paragraphs starting at:
three leads: a google search for RegEx and what I found in Word under RegEx,
none of which topics contained the word RegEx.
Finally, is it possible to send a screenshot in a post to a newsgroup?
Thanks much, Rafael
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