A ? for our Excel Guru's and MVPs

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Guest

Considering that we are under the Microsoft Forum Domain and as a simple
excel user. I need to know what are the guarantee we can obtain from 3rd
party Add Ins or formula building in standard excel program considering the
following.
1. Excel program always upgrade itself..Will the suggested formula building
thru 3rd party suggestions be guaranteed as integral part of any excel
upgrade?
2. If there are formula suggested under this forum that are not covered by
the Help Files samples and Function description, will this microsoft forum
guarantee the CHECKED MARKS and such checked marks will be integral to all
the succeeding microsoft Upgrades. I am not foolish to obtain any suggestion
even they are CHECKED if these suggestions are not explained or distinguished
precisely by microsoft help files considering the risk in the future that I
may not able to use the old MS files, utilizing unexplained formula
structuring by the excel programmers himself or MS Support files.
I hope you can bother to give comments since excel's future is based on the
present.
thanks for any clear and guaranteed reply..
 
G

Guest

As an extension...Since the microsoft forum have duly selected the technical
expertise of our MVP's...I am looking forward that microsoft excel will
provide these formula structuring (function usage) in the microsoft Help or
support Files...further to allowing our dear users like me to use such in a
recorded excel files....
 
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Bob Phillips

It is a forum provided by MS for MS products, apart from offensive content,
MS then let it roll, and make no commitments to what is done or said here.

MVPs are not MS people, MS give the award as a recognition of their
contribution to helping communities, but again with no commitment on either
party other than behaving appropriately.

There are only 2 guarantees in life, and you know them, MS products sure
aren't one of them.

If you are looking for guarantees that anything you do, anything you
install, etc. will work in future MS products, your dreaming IMO. Either
ride the risk, or use the LCD of functionality.

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct)
 
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Ron Rosenfeld

Considering that we are under the Microsoft Forum Domain and as a simple
excel user. I need to know what are the guarantee we can obtain from 3rd
party Add Ins or formula building in standard excel program considering the
following.
1. Excel program always upgrade itself..Will the suggested formula building
thru 3rd party suggestions be guaranteed as integral part of any excel
upgrade?

NO


2. If there are formula suggested under this forum that are not covered by
the Help Files samples and Function description, will this microsoft forum
guarantee the CHECKED MARKS and such checked marks will be integral to all
the succeeding microsoft Upgrades. I am not foolish to obtain any suggestion
even they are CHECKED if these suggestions are not explained or distinguished
precisely by microsoft help files considering the risk in the future that I
may not able to use the old MS files, utilizing unexplained formula
structuring by the excel programmers himself or MS Support files.
I hope you can bother to give comments since excel's future is based on the
present.
thanks for any clear and guaranteed reply..

It seems you completely misunderstand the nature of the forum. Although MS
provides the server space, this forum is about users helping users.

The "guarantees" are worth what you pay for them; and I'm sure some will offer
you double-your-money-back if you are not satisfied.
--ron
 
G

Guest

The only thing I would add is that for so long as there are questions to be
asked and a forum in which to ask them there will be people here to give you
a hand... I have every faith that things will break and that things will get
fixed.

Gee Bob... I thought you were one of the guarantees in life? I'm shattered!
<g>
 
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Guest

I am not questioning about the whole products...I am pertaining only on the
formula structuring of excel - no more no less.
Since I use excel, I hade never experienced a fault on formula structuing
huided by the help files...I consider the help files as a true guarantee on a
cautiously made spreadsheet.. Out from the help files,,,I cannot do it ay all.

Also
see : https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvptechres
I've scanned thru the above site and found out the
certifications/licensing/opportunities/rights/entitlements for MVP directly.
Hence I suppose that all of checked suggestions are responsive and linked
with microsoft excel formula structuring.

You can also see from other page where the forum's page with rules of
conduct and other matters about microsoft role on this forum together with
MVP's who can control the forum in checking and unchecking....
I hope that everything is linked together, same with the basics of excel
formula structuring...
My question is still unanswered, if 3rd party is not a part, then why check
it ?
 
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Guest

The check marks on this site are not added by the MVP's. They are added by
the person asking the question. If they found the answer provided to be
helpful then they can Select "Yes" at the bottom where it asks "Was this post
helpful to you?". That adds the checkmark which is then attributed to the
person who supplied the answer. Based on the number of helpful posts given a
medal (gold, silver or bronze) may show up beside their name...
 
G

Guest

from microsoft page:

"Special consideration for question posts
In addition to the "helpful" and "not helpful" ratings, when someone adds a
post to a question you asked, you can rate this post as "the answer" to your
question or "not the answer" to your question. By rating a post as “the
answerâ€, you help others find the answer more quickly (because the Ask a
Question wizard searches answered questions), you give the person who posted
the answer credit for their contribution, and you help increase the quality
of answers in the discussion group. When you rate a post as the answer (click
Yes next to Did this post answer the question?) the post is marked as an
“answerâ€, the Questions answered number for the person who authored the post
increases by one in their profile information, and the thread is marked as an
“answered question.â€

When you rate a post as not the answer (click No next to Did this post
answer the question?), the post is not marked as an answer, the thread
remains a Question without answer thread (if there are no other posts marked
as an answer), and the author does not receive credit for answering the
question.

Notes

MVPs can also mark a reply post in a question thread as an answer (or not).
More than one post in a question thread can be marked as an answer to the
original question.
"""???
 
G

Guest

Lets hope Jim that this thread will close with a checked mark....I will leave
it for the MVP's because I really dont know which one from above is the
correct one.

"MVPs can also mark a reply post in a question thread as an answer"...

more power, thanks to all...
 
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Gord Dibben

I don't know of too many MVP's using the CDO interface so don't think they are
doing much checking of replies.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
B

Biff

If I was an MVP I would!

Biff

Gord Dibben said:
I don't know of too many MVP's using the CDO interface so don't think they
are
doing much checking of replies.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
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Gord Dibben

Do what?

Use the CDO interface?

Surely you jest.

Or maybe I should have said "check-marking of replies".


Gord
 
G

Guest

Hi Biff,
base on your experience in the forum, do you think i need to re-post this to
have the MVP rechecking attention tomorrow ?
 

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