Fully understood Chris, but from our point of view, there is nothing more
frustrating than taking time to answer someone's question to later finding
that person has multiple posted the question and other MVPs have answered
the same question elsewhere.
Why do users multiple post? If they ask a question in the CORRECT NG, it
will be answered. OTOH, if a user crossposts to several newsgrpoups, then an
answer get posted back to all the NGs and MARKS ALL INSTANCES AS READ so
that no one wastes time reading the same question repeatedly.
Like JoAnn, I don't remember in which NG I answered the question and be
dammed if I am going to waste my time scrolling through again to find it. I
have far better ways to waste my time. Unless, of course, you want to start
paying for this service?
--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/
"ChrisM" wrote in message
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Ok,
Point taken, but please note that I am neither the OP of this message, or
someone that usually multi-posts...
rant
However, as someone that frequently uses NGs to find the answers to those
little problems that crop up in my day-to-day work, few (NG related)
things annoy me more than finding someone else has asked exact same
question as I am having problems with and received an answer 'Answered in
another NG'. That is, I know that somewhere someone has an answer to my
problem, but I can't always find it... it would be so helpful from my
point of view if the responder to the post wrote 'Answered in your
(duplicate) post in alt.stuff.stupidQuestions.' or whatever.
Not having a personal go at you, you understand, just moaning about one of
my pet hates...
/rant
Have a nice day... ;-)
Chris.
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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And this is why you should not post the same question in multiple
newsgroups. To be honest with you, I rarely pay attention to specifically
which of the Word newsgroups a question is located. I use OE and am
subscribed to 4 Word newsgroups and 10 others.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"ChrisM" wrote in message
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It'd be cool to know which other group, then anyone else with a similar
problem might be able to find an answer...
;-)
Chris.
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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Asked and answered in the other newsgroup.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"Brian Bagnall" wrote in message
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Hi,
I've got an HP Officejet T65 printer. In Word it shows the width of my
text as 4.5 inches, but when I print it out the width measures out to
more like 5 inches (just under 5 inches). I'm using the HP Officejet T
Series printer driver.
The strange thing is, if I get it to print directly as a PDF file, it
outputs the file as 5 inches (slightly larger than 5 inches actually).
Anyone have any idea why this is happening?
- Brian