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Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer
the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd |
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Todd,
I hope that I am not being presumptuous in assuming that I am one of the 10, so ignore this if you didn't think so<vbg! Personally, I have used Basic in many forms in the past, first with the Apple, then with the old BBC machine. I migrated onto Pascal in the mid 80's. In the late 80's I started to use Excel (switching from Lotus), but I didn't use it's macro language much (the VBA predecessor) , found it too clunky, and thus didn't really build Excel type applications. By the time VBA came out I was pretty conversant with Excel, and had started to use VB for applications, so a switch to using VBA was relatively painless, although understanding the object model was the key to use it to any effectiveness. As I said, I had VB experience, so my main problem at the start of using VBA was the Excel object model (and I must admit I still find the Word and Outlook models a challenge, and the Visio model almost incomprehensible). To help me with that, guess where I looked - you've got it, these NGs. From here I also learnt that the MS KB articles are very useful, I found Chip Pearson's site which has always been an inspiration, and various other learning resources. The only VBA book I have ever bought is John Green's Programmer's Reference Manual which is great, but other people also say good things about some of John Walkenbach's books, and Kent Getz''s book is well regarded. The other aspect that took some understanding was APIs. I used the Allapi site here to get me kick started, and although it is not maintained anymore, it can still be found at http://www.mentalis.org/index2.shtml. As VBA is a subset (or is it a superset?) of VB, many of the VB resources, books and websites, can also be very useful in getting particular problems solved. The amazing thing is how mushy free information there is out there, although there is no substitute for practice, and trial and error. I do often think I am writing code purely for the sake of having some code that does 'xyz', not to solve a problem I have today<vbg. -- HTH Bob Phillips ... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Todd Huttenstine" wrote in message ... Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd |
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I replied to Todd's question on this group, but it is now reporting as not
being available on this server. Can anyone else see it, and anyone know why it is not available? Regards Bob "Todd Huttenstine" wrote in message ... Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:25:39 -0000, Bob Phillips wrote:
I replied to Todd's question on this group, but it is now reporting as not being available on this server. Can anyone else see it, and anyone know why it is not available? I see it just fine - no clue why it's N/A. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** There's ALWAYS one more bug! |
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Because you're using OE rather than a newsreader? <g
In article , "Bob Phillips" wrote: I replied to Todd's question on this group, but it is now reporting as not being available on this server. Can anyone else see it, and anyone know why it is not available? |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote:
Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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Auric,
did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server No need to do a manual count. There are at least two sites where that information is already compiled. http://www.contextures.com/xlngstats.html or click on the Newsgroup Statistics link on Tushar's site: http://www.tushar-mehta.com John "Auric__" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote: Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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John,
That's all groups (at least it is on Debra's site), not just programming group. -- HTH Bob Phillips ... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "John Wilson" wrote in message ... Auric, did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server No need to do a manual count. There are at least two sites where that information is already compiled. http://www.contextures.com/xlngstats.html or click on the Newsgroup Statistics link on Tushar's site: http://www.tushar-mehta.com John "Auric__" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote: Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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John,
But I see all of my other posts, so why should this one be different? Is it a known intermittent bug? It actually appeared fleetingly and then gave the not available message. Regards Bob "J.E. McGimpsey" wrote in message ... Because you're using OE rather than a newsreader? <g In article , "Bob Phillips" wrote: I replied to Todd's question on this group, but it is now reporting as not being available on this server. Can anyone else see it, and anyone know why it is not available? |
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Auric,
I just counted up in Google, and Tom has posted 46,100 (sic!) to this group since it started.Chip has posted 8,010, and Dave (Peterson) has posted 7,880. Staggering when you think about it. -- HTH Bob Phillips ... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Auric__" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote: Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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Bob,
That's all groups Knew that... Tushar's site is a lot more comprehensive. http://www.tushar-mehta.com/ If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a visit. John "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... John, That's all groups (at least it is on Debra's site), not just programming group. -- HTH Bob Phillips ... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "John Wilson" wrote in message ... Auric, did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server No need to do a manual count. There are at least two sites where that information is already compiled. http://www.contextures.com/xlngstats.html or click on the Newsgroup Statistics link on Tushar's site: http://www.tushar-mehta.com John "Auric__" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote: Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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You can get a lot of interesting newsgroup statistics at
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Auric, I just counted up in Google, and Tom has posted 46,100 (sic!) to this group since it started.Chip has posted 8,010, and Dave (Peterson) has posted 7,880. Staggering when you think about it. -- HTH Bob Phillips ... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Auric__" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote: Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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no idea, really - I've never used OE (though I do use its
supercharged cousin, Entourage, for mail). I just know that when news articles start disappearing, it's more than likely that OE is involved. The MS news server going down is a minor exception, but switching over to another server fixes that. In article , "Bob Phillips" wrote: But I see all of my other posts, so why should this one be different? Is it a known intermittent bug? It actually appeared fleetingly and then gave the not available message. |
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Chip,
Had seen that one a while ago but it wasn't being updated on a timely basis, so I lost track of it. It's amazing how many different ways you can manipulate data. Anyway, thanks for reminding me about the site. John "Chip Pearson" wrote in message ... You can get a lot of interesting newsgroup statistics at http://netscan.research.microsoft.com -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Auric, I just counted up in Google, and Tom has posted 46,100 (sic!) to this group since it started.Chip has posted 8,010, and Dave (Peterson) has posted 7,880. Staggering when you think about it. -- HTH Bob Phillips ... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Auric__" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500, Todd Huttenstine wrote: Just curious... There are about 10 or so people who I notice always answer the questions. There are some others but I usually notice about 10 and you all know who you are. Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? I use Excel allot and VBA is always needed. I am learning by examples and experience but its a slow process. Each day something else clicks. Anyway, this is great resource. Todd If you just count sheer numbers of posts, there's actually 14 (or 13). I did a quick count of posts that I could retrieve from the server. Here's everyone with at least 100 posts in that time (47 days): Tom Ogilvy 1627 (that's not a typo - one thousand six hundred plus) Chip Pearson 347 Ron de Bruin 280 Don Guillett 264 Dave Peterson 249 steve 231 (probably more than one person) Bob Phillips 195 J.E. McGimpsey 142 Harald Staff 129 Dick Kusleika 120 Todd Huttenstine 116 (yes, you're on the list) Vasant Nanavati 104 Bernie Deitrick 103 keepitcool 100 Compare with me: 18 posts (including this one) and among the people I know, I'm the "answer person". I just hope that these people get paid for it. -- auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com ***** The Toe that can be stubbed is not the true Toe. |
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"Todd Huttenstine" skrev i melding
... Just wondering if you could give me an idea of where you guys gained the knowledge and how long yall have been doing it??? Hi Todd Except for the usual "practice, practice" (I write code for a living); right here. Since 5-6 years ago I spend 30 to 90 minutes a day in these newggroups, reading, testing and learning from real life problems & solutions. -- HTH. Best wishes Harald Followup to newsgroup only please |
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I just counted up in Google, and Tom has posted 46,100 (sic!) to this group
since it started.Chip has posted 8,010, and Dave (Peterson) has posted 7,880. This is great. I just cant even think that so much efforts were put just to help others without any reward. I joind this NG just one month back and found it very useful. Currently I spend around two hrs on NG and then another 2 hrs on trial and error on what I learned from the NG. Solving others problems always takes more time then learning for own problems. Cheers ! ! ! |
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Shetty,
just to help others without any reward The reward is in knowing that you *have* helped others and there is absolutely no better way, in my opinion, to broaden your knowledge than active participation in the ng's. You can study all the books that you want with example spreadsheets of widgets, wingdings and whatnot, but here in the ng's you get to deal with 'real world' examples and problems. When I first happened upon the ng's I thought that I knew about 75% of what could be done with Excel. I quickly learned that I was actually in the 5% to 10% range. I venture to guess that I'm up near the 50% range now but there's no way that I could have learned as much as I did without trying to help others here. John Shetty wrote: I just counted up in Google, and Tom has posted 46,100 (sic!) to this group since it started.Chip has posted 8,010, and Dave (Peterson) has posted 7,880. This is great. I just cant even think that so much efforts were put just to help others without any reward. I joind this NG just one month back and found it very useful. Currently I spend around two hrs on NG and then another 2 hrs on trial and error on what I learned from the NG. Solving others problems always takes more time then learning for own problems. Cheers ! ! ! |
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"John Wilson" wrote in message
... Shetty, When I first happened upon the ng's I thought that I knew about 75% of what could be done with Excel. I quickly learned that I was actually in the 5% to 10% range. I venture to guess that I'm up near the 50% Really? Do you think you could take a look at this problem I have ... only kidding<vbg. What I have found from these NGs is that I often don't know what I thought I knew <doh!. |
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Bob,
I venture to guess that I'm up near the 50% For fleeting moments?? Maybe?? <vbg Of course, when I read some of the replies from Tom, Chip, Dave and yes, Harlan, I'm quickly humbled into maybe 1% (and that's a very big maybe). The point I was trying to convey is that while active participation in the ng's can be a humbling experience, the knowledge that you gain through that participation is invaluable. Do you think you could take a look at this problem I have Why, sure!!! How else can I ever get to 51% ??? (just kidding) John Bob Phillips wrote: "John Wilson" wrote in message ... Shetty, When I first happened upon the ng's I thought that I knew about 75% of what could be done with Excel. I quickly learned that I was actually in the 5% to 10% range. I venture to guess that I'm up near the 50% Really? Do you think you could take a look at this problem I have ... only kidding<vbg. What I have found from these NGs is that I often don't know what I thought I knew <doh!. |
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John,
It's good to see that some amongst us still have humility. Best Regards Bob "John Wilson" wrote in message ... Bob, I venture to guess that I'm up near the 50% For fleeting moments?? Maybe?? <vbg Of course, when I read some of the replies from Tom, Chip, Dave and yes, Harlan, I'm quickly humbled into maybe 1% (and that's a very big maybe). The point I was trying to convey is that while active participation in the ng's can be a humbling experience, the knowledge that you gain through that participation is invaluable. Do you think you could take a look at this problem I have Why, sure!!! How else can I ever get to 51% ??? (just kidding) John Bob Phillips wrote: "John Wilson" wrote in message ... Shetty, When I first happened upon the ng's I thought that I knew about 75% of what could be done with Excel. I quickly learned that I was actually in the 5% to 10% range. I venture to guess that I'm up near the 50% Really? Do you think you could take a look at this problem I have ... only kidding<vbg. What I have found from these NGs is that I often don't know what I thought I knew <doh!. |
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
... It's good to see that some amongst us still have humility. How can one not have ? This is the #1 place for ego adjustments. I've promised myself a big bottle of ice cold jack daniels the day I can read and follow one of Harlan's unique formula solutions. Hasn't happened yet :-) Best wishes Harald |
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