Don Guillett wrote:
And you should reply to the post instead of starting a new one.

And exactly how would you propose that I accomplish that when "some
news readers" -- you might imagine that means the one(s) that I use --
"do not permit posting responses when the body of the posting is
empty"? Klunk!

For the reading-impaired, let me expand on my explanation. I found the
original posting only by going to
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.aspx .
It does not appear in Google Groups. (That is a common problem, not
limited to "empty" postings.) But the MS web site does not permit
posting a response to "empty" postings.

So my choice was not to respond at all or post a new thread. I chose
not only to help the OP, but also to educate readers about why they
might not see responses to their "empty" postings.

PS: If I duplicated the title exactly, most news readers with
"threading" capability will make my posting look like a response, not a
new thread, if they have the original posting. However, I must confess
that I do not know if I duplicated the title exactly because the MS web
site does not show the entire title. The most that I can see is "how
do I identify statistical outliers with e...". In fact, viewing the
original posting another way, I just discovered that the title is at
least "how do I identify statistical outliers with excel in". I
suspect there is more after the word "in".