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.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
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"Don Ellis" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:03:26 +0200, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:
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