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Newsgroups not available
Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list,
e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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Consider using a news agent like Outlook Express and signing up directly to
the news server. news://msnews.microsoft.com/ See http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/WhichNewgrp.htm BTW, there is no Word General Questions newsgroup. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list, e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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You might want to ask your network administrator about this.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list, e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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"General Questions" is the name assigned to this NG in the Microsoft
Communities Web portal. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Consider using a news agent like Outlook Express and signing up directly to the news server. news://msnews.microsoft.com/ See http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/WhichNewgrp.htm BTW, there is no Word General Questions newsgroup. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list, e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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Thank you. I did ask the network administrator, who suggested that I make
sure that the .Net client is installed. It is, but that missed the point - the point is, I can navigate the links (on the left of the portal page) all the way through english/office/word, but fail on selecting the newsgroup itself. I also tried the software reader idea too (but not the logon to newsgroup idea) and that did not help either. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might want to ask your network administrator about this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list, e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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I'm afraid I don't have any idea what the problem might be. Obviously, lots
of other people (including you at home) can connect to the NGs this way, so the problem must somehow be in your office setup, and if the IT people there can't help then I don't know what to suggest. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Thank you. I did ask the network administrator, who suggested that I make sure that the .Net client is installed. It is, but that missed the point - the point is, I can navigate the links (on the left of the portal page) all the way through english/office/word, but fail on selecting the newsgroup itself. I also tried the software reader idea too (but not the logon to newsgroup idea) and that did not help either. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might want to ask your network administrator about this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list, e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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As it turns out, it is the same workstation that has the bizarre Word
behavior - File/Save creates a temp file instead of saving the current file. The changes go to the temp file (which is usually a ~wrl*.tmp) and the named file does not reflect the changes. But the network people will just want to re-image, so I am still trying to diagnose since I don't want to go the re-image route. You and a few other MVPs have already responded in the other thread about that problem, so I will post a resolution at some point if I find one. Mostly, since I have a workaround (File/SaveAs and overwrite) I have not been paying a lot of attention to it. I have downloaded most of the KB articles cited here and that I could find, so I will be working on this as soon as I get some time. Thanks again for all the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't have any idea what the problem might be. Obviously, lots of other people (including you at home) can connect to the NGs this way, so the problem must somehow be in your office setup, and if the IT people there can't help then I don't know what to suggest. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Thank you. I did ask the network administrator, who suggested that I make sure that the .Net client is installed. It is, but that missed the point - the point is, I can navigate the links (on the left of the portal page) all the way through english/office/word, but fail on selecting the newsgroup itself. I also tried the software reader idea too (but not the logon to newsgroup idea) and that did not help either. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might want to ask your network administrator about this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "John Campbell" wrote in message ... Any ideas why I cannot read/join the newsgroups? I can scroll to the list, e.g. English/Office/Word, but then when I select (for example) "Word General Questions" I get "Page Cannot be Displayed" Try later etc. This happens at work, but not here. Obviously, since I am posting from here. Any ideas? I have checked with our network people, and they say they are trying to make sure that Microsoft content makes it through the firewall. Please let me know. Thanks. |
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