I am thoroughly confused! Over the weekend (and now of course) I posted
questions in this “area”. When I got to work this morning and started
looking for the posts, I found that at work I have set my favorites to look
for Excel questions in an “Office / Community”. I now know why I have a heck
of a time finding all my posts and answers.

Can someone please direct to someone, or something that will clear up what
the difference is between Forums, Discussion Groups, and Newsgroups on
Microsoft.com, and which one I should be using? They do not appear to be the
same. Thanks.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm


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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software
dguillett1@austin.rr.com
"Phil vK" <PhilvK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A1358B3D-87CC-470C-9666-A7E8B03E5F7E@microsoft.com...
>I am thoroughly confused! Over the weekend (and now of course) I posted
> questions in this “area”. When I got to work this morning and started
> looking for the posts, I found that at work I have set my favorites to
> look
> for Excel questions in an “Office / Community”. I now know why I have a
> heck
> of a time finding all my posts and answers.
>
> Can someone please direct to someone, or something that will clear up what
> the difference is between Forums, Discussion Groups, and Newsgroups on
> Microsoft.com, and which one I should be using? They do not appear to be
> the
> same. Thanks.
>

Checkout Google:

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...s_maxy= 2008&
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200785


"Phil vK" wrote:

> I am thoroughly confused! Over the weekend (and now of course) I posted
> questions in this “area”. When I got to work this morning and started
> looking for the posts, I found that at work I have set my favorites to look
> for Excel questions in an “Office / Community”. I now know why I have a heck
> of a time finding all my posts and answers.
>
> Can someone please direct to someone, or something that will clear up what
> the difference is between Forums, Discussion Groups, and Newsgroups on
> Microsoft.com, and which one I should be using? They do not appear to be the
> same. Thanks.
>

Thank you Don and Gary for responding to this. Where I am confused however
is that there appears to be a least 2 areas of Excel topics on Microsoft.com.
Both are called “discussion groups”.

One is titled “Discussions in Excel” which is under “MICROSOFT Discussion
Groups Home”. The other is under “OFFICE Discussion Groups Home”.

They do not appear to be the same….is one better than the other? Are these
the same as newsgroups and / or forums?


"Gary''s Student" wrote:

> Checkout Google:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...s_maxy= 2008&
> --
> Gary''s Student - gsnu200785
>
>
> "Phil vK" wrote:
>
> > I am thoroughly confused! Over the weekend (and now of course) I posted
> > questions in this “area”. When I got to work this morning and started
> > looking for the posts, I found that at work I have set my favorites to look
> > for Excel questions in an “Office / Community”. I now know why I have a heck
> > of a time finding all my posts and answers.
> >
> > Can someone please direct to someone, or something that will clear up what
> > the difference is between Forums, Discussion Groups, and Newsgroups on
> > Microsoft.com, and which one I should be using? They do not appear to be the
> > same. Thanks.
> >