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.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"John Campbell" wrote in message
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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.

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