Joining here has nothing to do with Excel. It has to do with your news
reader, such as Outlook Express or Agent Forte or a Browser or whatever.
There is no button in Excel to "login or logout" of newsgroups.

Tyro

"lindalou" wrote in message
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This is not directly an excel question. Often, when I log on to this
discussion group (or one of the other office discussion groups), the box
that
will allow me to ask a question or reply will not come up. It's got
nothing
to do with my firewall settings. I can turn the firewall off completely
and
it still won't work. Any ideas? Sometimes this will go on for several
days.