"The messages are visible if you access the group directly using the news
server, rather than via the unreliable web interface.
--
David Biddulph"

David made above comment earlier.

How do you do that please?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Saved from a previous post:

If you're able (not behind a firewall at work???), you may want to connect
directly to the MS newsservers.

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 (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

trip_to_tokyo wrote:

"The messages are visible if you access the group directly using the news
server, rather than via the unreliable web interface.
--
David Biddulph"

David made above comment earlier.

How do you do that please?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

--

Dave Peterson

Read Connecting to News Groups

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/HintsA...roupUsers.aspx
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"trip_to_tokyo" wrote:

"The messages are visible if you access the group directly using the news
server, rather than via the unreliable web interface.
--
David Biddulph"

David made above comment earlier.

How do you do that please?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Thanks Dave & Jim.

I don't fully understand what's happening here.

Have been playing around with it for the last hour or so and notice that
what I access through:-

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ang=e n&cr=US

- is shadowed in Google Groups (can't see the point of that; however . . .).

What I do know is that over last week or so the link mentioned above does
not refresh in real time.

It's a real nuisance and I can't, at the moment, see an easy and quick away
round it.

I need to go away and read!



"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Read Connecting to News Groups

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/HintsA...roupUsers.aspx
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"trip_to_tokyo" wrote:

"The messages are visible if you access the group directly using the news
server, rather than via the unreliable web interface.
--
David Biddulph"

David made above comment earlier.

How do you do that please?

Thanks in advance for any replies.