[Paul]

On Mar 11, 4:37 pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
Paul wrote:
I accessed the groups microsoft.public.word.general and
microsoft.public.word using Google Groups. Unfortunately, they no
longer carry those groups as live forums, just as archives. It is
very strange a forum for generic Word questions has so little activity
that this happened. What is the closest Word group for generic Word
questions?

Thanks.

This is it. :-)

The archived groups were removed from the Microsoft news servers. Although
there are still some independent servers that support them, their traffic is
very low now.

It's odd isn't it? There is a perfectly good ".general" subgroup for
Word, then a much less general ".docmanagement" alternative comes
along, presumably mushrooms in scope, then assumes the role of the
previous ".general". A bit like slang. New words become vogue, but
meaning similar things to old words, which drop out of usage.