Selecting sentence/paragraph with keyboard

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're going to be visiting this newsgroup often, you would find it much
more efficient to access it directly from the news server, reading it with
an NNTP newsreader such as Outlook Express. This allows you to sort and
search messages in a variety of ways, as well as to suppress the display of
messages you've already read (so you see just the new posts). Best of all,
posting is pretty much instantaneous. For instructions on how to set up OE
to read these NGs, see
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/resources/communities.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks, Suzanne... I'll have a look.

Don

 

[Guest]

Hi Suzanne,

Ok, all set up in Agent newsreader... leaving only the question: "Which of
the 2294 newsgroups is this one?"

I looked at all the groups that sounded relevant, but nothing leaps out as
the one I should be subscribing to.

Thank you.

Don

 

[Graham Mayor]

This one is
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

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[Guest]

Perfect... thank you, Graham.

Don

 

[Don Ellis]

This one is
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

To repeat myself inside Agent... thank you... to both Suzanne for
recommending this approach and you for showing me the door.

Don

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

FWIW, all the (English-language) Word NGs are in the hierarchy
microsoft.public.word... Also, in the Communities Web interface, if you
hover over the flyout from which you choose newsgroups, you'll see that
General Questions shows microsoft.public.word.docmanagement. This is
admittedly a bit confusing, but when the Communities were being set up, the
decision was made that every product group should have a General Questions
NG. The NG microsoft.public.word.general, although it still survives on some
news servers, had been deprecated by MS years ago because it collected
*everything*, and the traffic level and signal-to-noise ratio made it
useless.

The Word MVPs, somewhat foolishly, it now seems, selected .docmanagement as
a NG with little traffic (probably because no one was entirely sure what it
was for) as the one to be labeled general (in retrospect, .newusers would
probably have been a better choice, but it already had very high traffic).
Now we're stuck with our decision.

Now that you have easy access to all the Word NGs, you'll probably find that
you want to subscribe to some of the more focused ones (which also have
lower traffic and so are easier to keep up with). These include
..formatting.longdocs, .numbering, .pagelayout, .printingfonts, and .tables,
as well as the word.vba hierarchy for programming.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Don Ellis]

FWIW, all the (English-language) Word NGs are in the hierarchy
microsoft.public.word...

Now that you have easy access to all the Word NGs, you'll probably find that
you want to subscribe to some of the more focused ones (which also have
lower traffic and so are easier to keep up with). These include
.formatting.longdocs, .numbering, .pagelayout, .printingfonts, and .tables,
as well as the word.vba hierarchy for programming.

Great information, Suzanne... thank you for the explanation and
pointers... especially about the newsgroup approach to begin with.
Trying to follow this forum on the web was a bit of effort. Even in
the "collapsed" view, the number of responses are shown, making each
subject a two-line entry.

Between the sentence/paragraph macros I got, the lesson in creating
macros to begin with, and the introduction to this group, this may
have been the most profitable question I've posted on any forum.

Cheers,

Don

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Always glad to drag another user into the NNTP fold--gives us more
ammunition against MS when they suggest that "no one uses NNTP any more" and
wants to provide the NGs only via the Web!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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