David, that is not what I meant. What I meant was that I was
not going to read all of the links but that OE does have a problem
with NGs and clicking on Download Headers can get the posts
which appear to be missing - they are not missing but are not
downloaded. It is an OE issue and it may be part of the OPs
problem.
Connecting directly to the Microsoft server will help him cos other
servers do not have all the posts but OE has other issues which may
need addressing.
Chrissy.
PS - thanks for posting my header info - I have just changed ISPs
and was wondering who was my news hoster in NZ. It appears
to be iHug.
David McRitchie wrote
Hi Chrissy,
I am not sure what those links cover but he may need to
get the headers. There is a button on the toolbar (far left)
Perhaps because you are not connected directly to the microsoft
newservers. If you pasted any of David Peterson's links into
your browser you would bring up the newsgroups and be linking
directly to MS newservers. i.e.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...excel.newusers
An account for msnews.microsoft.com would be started if you
don't have one and you would see microsoft.public.excel.newusers
within the account. You will only connect to microsoft newsservers
with msnews.microsoft.com for other newsgroups you will probably
have to continue using whatevery you are using.
The reason we can see that both you John are not connected directly
are the number of hops in the path to get to the MS servers.
.
John's:
Path:
TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed01.tsnz.
net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail
Chrissy's
Path:
TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!nntp-relay.ihug.net!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!new sfeed01.tsnz.net!
news02.tsnz.net!news.iconz.co.nz!news.maxnet.co.nz !not-for-mail
David's Path: TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
Dave P's Path: TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm
"Chrissy" wrote in message ...
I am not sure what those links cover but he may need to
get the headers. There is a button on the toolbar (far left)
that he can click to get any headers which are not downloaded.
Most times they download automatically but some times they
don't. The default setting is to download 100 or 300 at a time
so if there are heaps of posts to the group he may need to
click that button lots. The status bar will show if headers are
being downloading.
Chrissy.
"Dave Peterson" wrote in message ...
From his headers, it doesn't look like it.
I'm not sure if it's a problem with his ISP or with syncing messages from
Outlook Express (I don't use OE as my newsreader), but I agree with Nick about
connecting to the microsoft newsservers directly:
Since 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
(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
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 (maybe a few hours behind) 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
Nick Hodge wrote:
John
Sure is
Are you connecting to the MSNews Server? (news.microsoft.com)
--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
HIS
"John Howard" wrote in message
...
Is this Newsgroup still operational? The last message shows as 2/6/2003
on
my PC
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Dave Peterson