Most of the respondents are using Usenet.

I don't believe anyone in the excel forum is paid to provide answers. (A
microsoft employee only occasionally posts in this usenet group - although
the primary server is provided by microsoft).

my email address is

It is in all my posts in Usenet. Perhaps it is stripped in the excel
forum.

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Tom Ogilvy



"DaveJones39"
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This is a new neighborhood (world) for me.

Tom O. mentioned "probably 95% of the responses that you see in the
Excel forum are coming from the UseNet news group and not from members
of the Excel Forum." That's a mystery to me. Are Excel Forum
questions posted in some broader, public forum (UseNet)? Or is this a
HELP function sponsored by MS? I see same individuals responding to
several different Excel Forum queries. Are these folks simply Good
Samaritans, or are they sponsored or paid to do this good work?

(Assuming that Tom O. is a human & not a computer-generated responder,
I'd appreciate a private e-mail so that I could make (brief) contact.)


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