Question not posted?

[Simon]

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.

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[trip_to_tokyo]

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.

 

[Joe User]

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: <[email protected]>
Subject: conditional format cells by date
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:27:02 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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.


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[Joe User]

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)?


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[Joe User]

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/microsoft.public.excel.misc/msg/72c5ac3ab5212dec

The link to the entire thread is:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.misc/browse_frm/thread/f3c68f9d7ddf9aa4#


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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)?


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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.



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: <[email protected]>
Subject: conditional format cells by date
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:27:02 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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.



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.


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