You can also let others in the Community know whether they should bother
reading a post or not by rating posts. If you find the information in a post
useful, chances are that other people will too.

Heres how it works. The system keeps track of positive and negative
ratings. Each post has a score, and a rating count. The score is the number
of positive ratings, and the rating count is the number of ratings (positive
or negative). Each post displays buttons for rating (above the message in the
message pane or below the message in the full-thread window) with text asking
if the post was helpful to you (or if the post is a response to a question
you asked, if the post answered your question). When you rate a post as
helpful to you, both the score and the rating count for that post are
increased by one. When you rate a post as not helpful, only the rating count
is increased by one. When a post has a rating count of at least three, and
the ratio of score/rating count is 2/3 or greater, the post is marked as
€œhelpful.€�

Identifying helpful posts:

You can identify a post that is marked as €œhelpful€� in the following ways:

The post is displayed in green text in the thread pane
When you hold the mouse pointer over the post in the thread pane, a screen
tip appears indicating X out of Y people found this post helpful (where X is
the score and Y is the rating count for the post).
The thread summary displays the number of posts in the thread, as well as
the number of helpful posts in the thread.
You can show only threads with helpful posts by clicking Threads with
helpful posts in the Show list.
This information makes it easier for everyone in the Community to decide
which threads to read first. Additionally, threads with posts that have been
marked as €œhelpful€� will be kept in the discussion group for a longer period
of time than those with posts that have not been marked as "helpful."


The importance of rating answers:

To build trust in communities, so that you and others know that you can
count on the accuracy of the information you read in discussion groups, it is
important that when you ask questions, you rate any answers you receive. If
the post answered your question, it is important to give the contributor
credit for the answer, by rating that post as an answer. If the post did not
answer your question, you can rate the post as not the answer. Ideally,
additional posts will be added that will answer your question.


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"Texas Aggie" wrote in message
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You can also let others in the Community know whether they should bother
reading a post or not by rating posts. If you find the information in a
post
useful, chances are that other people will too.

If this reply was helpful, please indicate that your question has been
answered to help others find anwsers to similar questions.


And to what were YOU "replying"?

And do you know that not everyone accesses the groups the same way. Those
with newsreaders (Outlook Express, for example) do not see that question.
best wishes
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Bernard Liengme
Microsoft Excel MVP
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"Texas Aggie" wrote in message
...
You can also let others in the Community know whether they should bother
reading a post or not by rating posts. If you find the information in a
post
useful, chances are that other people will too.

Heres how it works. The system keeps track of positive and negative
ratings. Each post has a score, and a rating count. The score is the
number
of positive ratings, and the rating count is the number of ratings
(positive
or negative). Each post displays buttons for rating (above the message in
the
message pane or below the message in the full-thread window) with text
asking
if the post was helpful to you (or if the post is a response to a question
you asked, if the post answered your question). When you rate a post as
helpful to you, both the score and the rating count for that post are
increased by one. When you rate a post as not helpful, only the rating
count
is increased by one. When a post has a rating count of at least three, and
the ratio of score/rating count is 2/3 or greater, the post is marked as
€œhelpful.€�

Identifying helpful posts:

You can identify a post that is marked as €œhelpful€� in the following ways:

The post is displayed in green text in the thread pane
When you hold the mouse pointer over the post in the thread pane, a screen
tip appears indicating X out of Y people found this post helpful (where X
is
the score and Y is the rating count for the post).
The thread summary displays the number of posts in the thread, as well as
the number of helpful posts in the thread.
You can show only threads with helpful posts by clicking Threads with
helpful posts in the Show list.
This information makes it easier for everyone in the Community to decide
which threads to read first. Additionally, threads with posts that have
been
marked as €œhelpful€� will be kept in the discussion group for a longer
period
of time than those with posts that have not been marked as "helpful."


The importance of rating answers:

To build trust in communities, so that you and others know that you can
count on the accuracy of the information you read in discussion groups, it
is
important that when you ask questions, you rate any answers you receive.
If
the post answered your question, it is important to give the contributor
credit for the answer, by rating that post as an answer. If the post did
not
answer your question, you can rate the post as not the answer. Ideally,
additional posts will be added that will answer your question.


--
If this reply was helpful, please indicate that your question has been
answered to help others find anwsers to similar questions.

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Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2009