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.

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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!
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"John Campbell" wrote in message
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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.