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I have a few questions and suggestions and hope someone can help.
Questions: 1) I posted several questions to a couple of groups. I'm rather certain I checked the box to be notified or whatever. I've heard nothing back from those posts. How do I locate what I've posted? I've used your Help and it says a poster can be located, starting with clicking on their name in a post. I can't do that since I can't find one of my posts. I've tried searching by my username and my email address without success. 2) How can I ensure that my posts are actually generating an email to me - when someone responds of course? Suggestions: 1) When utilizing Help, can there be a search box within - that can be used for keywords of such things as a subject, title, or keywords? The search needs to expand out beyond the multi-page information that cannot possibly be all inclusive for help information. 2) Can help at the site pages include being able to search for user names, subject, dates, etc. 3) Can there be better navigation buttons within Help. If I'm in a page and want to go back, the only way that I'm finding to do that is right click, then click on Back. 4) In the left pane of the Office Community webpage, there is a list of numerous discussion groups. I've clicked on about seven and they all come up with the same page. In the right pane, there displays the same list of discussion groups, but each is expanded into sub-groups. Great! But what's the point of having a menu in the left pane if they take you to the same page showing the expanded groups in the right pane. The links in the left could lead to a sub-home page for each application. ---------------- 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....public.access |
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Hi Gil,
1) I posted several questions to a couple of groups. I'm rather certain I checked the box to be notified or whatever. I've heard nothing back from those posts. Yep. The very inept folks that Microsoft has subcontracted out maintenance of the web portal to broke the notification feature sometime in early October (based on the last notification message I received). Despite repeated requests to fix it, nothing has happened yet. How do I locate what I've posted? Here is a link that should open up your recent posts: http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ang=en&cr =US 2) How can I ensure that my posts are actually generating an email to me - when someone responds of course? You can't ensure this....the functionality is not working at this time. Why someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding that this be fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good message to customers. Tom Wickerath Microsoft Access MVP http://www.accessmvp.com/TWickerath/ __________________________________________ "Gil" wrote: I have a few questions and suggestions and hope someone can help. Questions: 1) I posted several questions to a couple of groups. I'm rather certain I checked the box to be notified or whatever. I've heard nothing back from those posts. How do I locate what I've posted? I've used your Help and it says a poster can be located, starting with clicking on their name in a post. I can't do that since I can't find one of my posts. I've tried searching by my username and my email address without success. 2) How can I ensure that my posts are actually generating an email to me - when someone responds of course? Suggestions: 1) When utilizing Help, can there be a search box within - that can be used for keywords of such things as a subject, title, or keywords? The search needs to expand out beyond the multi-page information that cannot possibly be all inclusive for help information. 2) Can help at the site pages include being able to search for user names, subject, dates, etc. 3) Can there be better navigation buttons within Help. If I'm in a page and want to go back, the only way that I'm finding to do that is right click, then click on Back. 4) In the left pane of the Office Community webpage, there is a list of numerous discussion groups. I've clicked on about seven and they all come up with the same page. In the right pane, there displays the same list of discussion groups, but each is expanded into sub-groups. Great! But what's the point of having a menu in the left pane if they take you to the same page showing the expanded groups in the right pane. The links in the left could lead to a sub-home page for each application. ---------------- 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....public.access |
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Gil, in addition to what Tom said, I'd suggest you use a newsreader to interact with
the groups, rather than the (to me) horrible web interface. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Xananews to name a few. Mike Gil wrote: I have a few questions and suggestions and hope someone can help. Questions: 1) I posted several questions to a couple of groups. I'm rather certain I checked the box to be notified or whatever. I've heard nothing back from those posts. How do I locate what I've posted? I've used your Help and it says a poster can be located, starting with clicking on their name in a post. I can't do that since I can't find one of my posts. I've tried searching by my username and my email address without success. 2) How can I ensure that my posts are actually generating an email to me - when someone responds of course? Suggestions: 1) When utilizing Help, can there be a search box within - that can be used for keywords of such things as a subject, title, or keywords? The search needs to expand out beyond the multi-page information that cannot possibly be all inclusive for help information. 2) Can help at the site pages include being able to search for user names, subject, dates, etc. 3) Can there be better navigation buttons within Help. If I'm in a page and want to go back, the only way that I'm finding to do that is right click, then click on Back. 4) In the left pane of the Office Community webpage, there is a list of numerous discussion groups. I've clicked on about seven and they all come up with the same page. In the right pane, there displays the same list of discussion groups, but each is expanded into sub-groups. Great! But what's the point of having a menu in the left pane if they take you to the same page showing the expanded groups in the right pane. The links in the left could lead to a sub-home page for each application. ---------------- 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....public.access |
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in : the functionality is not working at this time. Why someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding that this be fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good message to customers. I'm getting the impression that MS is moving away from it's Usenet-published newsgroups to its Technet discussions. Am I wrong on that? -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/ |
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"David W. Fenton" wrote:
the functionality is not working at this time. Why someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding that this be fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good message to customers. I'm getting the impression that MS is moving away from it's Usenet-published newsgroups to its Technet discussions. Am I wrong on that? That's my impression too. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |
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"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message ... "David W. Fenton" wrote: the functionality is not working at this time. Why someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding that this be fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good message to customers. I'm getting the impression that MS is moving away from it's Usenet-published newsgroups to its Technet discussions. Am I wrong on that? That's my impression too. Some have speculated that it is because Microsoft can control the "forums" and "discussions" but not newsgroups. However, I haven't observed any heavy-handed deletions, etc., in the microsoft.public.access... newsgroups at news.microsoft.com (which is where I subscribe to them), and Microsoft does have administrative control over those. Larry Linson Microsoft Office Access MVP |
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"Larry Linson" wrote in
: "Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message ... "David W. Fenton" wrote: the functionality is not working at this time. Why someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding that this be fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good message to customers. I'm getting the impression that MS is moving away from it's Usenet-published newsgroups to its Technet discussions. Am I wrong on that? That's my impression too. Some have speculated that it is because Microsoft can control the "forums" and "discussions" but not newsgroups. Rubbish. They could host (or mirror) the Technet discussions on a single NNTP server and if they prevented any other news servers from subscribing to it, they'd have full control of the content of that news server. However, I haven't observed any heavy-handed deletions, etc., in the microsoft.public.access... newsgroups at news.microsoft.com (which is where I subscribe to them), and Microsoft does have administrative control over those. Given that they distribute the newsgroups hosted on news.microsoft.com to other news servers, they don't have a lot of control. If they *didn't* distribute the newsgroups, they'd have full control. I hate the idea of being forced to use a web interface, because there are no good ones (those that make it easy to read and post make it difficult to keep track of what's been read and what's new, and vice versa). -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/ |
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