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If you're going to be visiting this newsgroup often, you would find it much
more efficient to access it directly from the news server, reading it with an NNTP newsreader such as Outlook Express. This allows you to sort and search messages in a variety of ways, as well as to suppress the display of messages you've already read (so you see just the new posts). Best of all, posting is pretty much instantaneous. For instructions on how to set up OE to read these NGs, see http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/...ommunities.htm. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Don Ellis" wrote in message ... Hi Lene, I don’t know exactly what you did to copy the macros and what went wrong. As a teacher, you can never know what mischief your students will get up to -- or what misconceptions are lurking in their untutored minds. My years of WordPerfect experience make me view macros as individual entities. What I didn’t expect was to put two or more macros in a single file before saving. So I was creating my Sentence macro and saving. And then creating a Paragraph macro which automatically overwrote it. It was this sentence in your instructions that turned on the light... Copy the SelectCurrentParagraph macro from the newsgroup and paste it below the other macros. So I did. And now they both work. Thanks again for taking the time to explain all this. You may not get paid, but you have my undying appreciation... and that’s no joke. Two things kept me from switching totally from WordPerfect to Word: 1) the Sentence/Paragraph keystrokes, and 2) Word’s awful handling of tables in versions before 2007. So I spent my days writing in WordPerfect, converting to Word, then bringing the document into Word for fine-tuning before sending it off to other Word users. That’s how much I liked WP. With your help getting over this initial speed bump, I may just focus on learning the quirks of Word now. (A task that would be simpler with a manual, so I suppose I should buy one, especially considering my disdain for online help files.) Again, thank you. You’ve made a huge difference. Cheers, Don Thanks also to Jay, whose message I also missed. I think the problem is the time lag between someone's posting and the website's displaying. Once you scroll past an area with no new messages, you tend not to visit that area again. |
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Thanks, Suzanne... I'll have a look. Don "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you're going to be visiting this newsgroup often, you would find it much more efficient to access it directly from the news server, reading it with an NNTP newsreader such as Outlook Express. This allows you to sort and search messages in a variety of ways, as well as to suppress the display of messages you've already read (so you see just the new posts). Best of all, posting is pretty much instantaneous. For instructions on how to set up OE to read these NGs, see http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/...ommunities.htm. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org |
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Hi Suzanne, Ok, all set up in Agent newsreader... leaving only the question: "Which of the 2294 newsgroups is this one?" I looked at all the groups that sounded relevant, but nothing leaps out as the one I should be subscribing to. Thank you. Don |
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This one is
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Don Ellis wrote: Hi Suzanne, Ok, all set up in Agent newsreader... leaving only the question: "Which of the 2294 newsgroups is this one?" I looked at all the groups that sounded relevant, but nothing leaps out as the one I should be subscribing to. Thank you. Don |
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Perfect... thank you, Graham.
Don "Graham Mayor" wrote: This one is microsoft.public.word.docmanagement -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:03:26 +0200, "Graham Mayor"
wrote: This one is microsoft.public.word.docmanagement To repeat myself inside Agent... thank you... to both Suzanne for recommending this approach and you for showing me the door. Don |
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FWIW, all the (English-language) Word NGs are in the hierarchy
microsoft.public.word... Also, in the Communities Web interface, if you hover over the flyout from which you choose newsgroups, you'll see that General Questions shows microsoft.public.word.docmanagement. This is admittedly a bit confusing, but when the Communities were being set up, the decision was made that every product group should have a General Questions NG. The NG microsoft.public.word.general, although it still survives on some news servers, had been deprecated by MS years ago because it collected *everything*, and the traffic level and signal-to-noise ratio made it useless. The Word MVPs, somewhat foolishly, it now seems, selected .docmanagement as a NG with little traffic (probably because no one was entirely sure what it was for) as the one to be labeled general (in retrospect, .newusers would probably have been a better choice, but it already had very high traffic). Now we're stuck with our decision. Now that you have easy access to all the Word NGs, you'll probably find that you want to subscribe to some of the more focused ones (which also have lower traffic and so are easier to keep up with). These include ..formatting.longdocs, .numbering, .pagelayout, .printingfonts, and .tables, as well as the word.vba hierarchy for programming. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Don Ellis" wrote in message ... On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:03:26 +0200, "Graham Mayor" wrote: This one is microsoft.public.word.docmanagement To repeat myself inside Agent... thank you... to both Suzanne for recommending this approach and you for showing me the door. Don |
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:42:44 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: FWIW, all the (English-language) Word NGs are in the hierarchy microsoft.public.word... Now that you have easy access to all the Word NGs, you'll probably find that you want to subscribe to some of the more focused ones (which also have lower traffic and so are easier to keep up with). These include .formatting.longdocs, .numbering, .pagelayout, .printingfonts, and .tables, as well as the word.vba hierarchy for programming. Great information, Suzanne... thank you for the explanation and pointers... especially about the newsgroup approach to begin with. Trying to follow this forum on the web was a bit of effort. Even in the "collapsed" view, the number of responses are shown, making each subject a two-line entry. Between the sentence/paragraph macros I got, the lesson in creating macros to begin with, and the introduction to this group, this may have been the most profitable question I've posted on any forum. Cheers, Don |
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Always glad to drag another user into the NNTP fold--gives us more
ammunition against MS when they suggest that "no one uses NNTP any more" and wants to provide the NGs only via the Web! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Don Ellis" wrote in message ... On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:42:44 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, all the (English-language) Word NGs are in the hierarchy microsoft.public.word... Now that you have easy access to all the Word NGs, you'll probably find that you want to subscribe to some of the more focused ones (which also have lower traffic and so are easier to keep up with). These include .formatting.longdocs, .numbering, .pagelayout, .printingfonts, and ..tables, as well as the word.vba hierarchy for programming. Great information, Suzanne... thank you for the explanation and pointers... especially about the newsgroup approach to begin with. Trying to follow this forum on the web was a bit of effort. Even in the "collapsed" view, the number of responses are shown, making each subject a two-line entry. Between the sentence/paragraph macros I got, the lesson in creating macros to begin with, and the introduction to this group, this may have been the most profitable question I've posted on any forum. Cheers, Don |
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