I think the problem is caused by the forum you're going through.

If you have a newsreader (even Outlook Express), you can connect directly to the
MSNewsServers and see the posts in their "original" pristine state <vbg.

Saved from a previous post:

If you have Outlook Express installed, try clicking on these links (or copy and
paste into MSIE).

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.excel.setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.misc
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...heet.functions
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...excel.newusers
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...el.programming

(and a few more for MSWord)
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....docmanagement
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...word.word97vba
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....word.newusers
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ord.pagelayout
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ord.vba.addins
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....vba.beginners
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....customization
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rd.vba.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....vba.userforms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....word6-7macros

(You can always connect to more later)

Here are some links that explain it better:

Chip Pearson has some notes written by Leonard Meads at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DirectConnect.htm

David McRitchie's notes at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6.htm
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6nws01.htm

Tushar Mehta's notes at:
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/misc_tut...e_ng/index.htm

And if you're looking for old posts:

Or you can use google to search for stuff you've posted (and find the replies,
too)

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
http://groups.google.com/advanced_gr...Excel*&num=100

Ron de Bruin has an excel addin that you may like:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm

BizMark wrote:

Dear All,

I'm hoping to make some new friends here, having just joined this forum
and all, but I've noticed one thing very quickly:

There are lots of instances of code examples being given out in
messages - are you all aware that the greater-than and less-than
symbols get lost during this process?

I've seen quite a few code chunks where these symbols are quite clearly
needed, such as in logical expressions, but they're missing.

This must surely have an impact on the way the code works? It's not
always obvious as to which symbol should be inserted in the gap.

Apart from this, nice to see other people taking Excel programming
seriously (in all the jobs I've had, it's always been treated as
'third-class' programming against Java, C++ etc.)

Regards,
BizMark

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Dave Peterson