Tom,
I've asked questions on here over several years and had anything up to six
or seven people giving good advice, almost always with a resolution at the
end of it. Advice incidentally that would cost a lot of money if you
approached a commercial software company.
I've also given advice to lots of people who know less than I do about
Excel, although I'm way down the chain of expertise on here.
I recently contracted a particularly nasty piece of spyware called Spy Axe.
I posted asking for help on Windowsxp.general and resolved the problem with
the help that I was given, this lead to a thread of more than twenty
postings. Check it out, subject Spy Axe.
The people on these Excel groups are every bit as helpful, indeed some of
them give advice on both.
Bear in mind that as has already been said, no one gets paid for this
advice, you are very much mistaken in your presumption.
Regards,
Alan.
"Roger Govier" <roger@nospamtechnology4u.co.uk> wrote in message
news:43748CE1.1050207@nospamtechnology4u.co.uk...
> Tom
> Let us consider the chronology of your postings
>
> Nov-09 Tom 03:46pm Ian 04:55 possible solution
> Bob 05:23 possible solution
> Tom 05:38 reply Ian
> Tom 05:42 reply Bob
> Tom 06:18 reply Bob runtime error, going with Ian's solution
> Tom 06:28 reply Ian
> Ian 08:34 raising further questions to clarify
> Nov-10 Tom 04:53am reply Ian
> Ian 09:34 still trying to get clarification
> Tom 11:24 reply Ian problem resolved elsewhere
>
> Nov-10 06:18 stroppy new thread (this one)
>
> Your request was unclear. Both Bob and Ian tried to help you. You didn't
> explain to Bob where the error occurred, you just "blew him out".
> Ian persisted in trying to understand exactly what you wanted, but your
> impatience and ingratitude to the help you were being offered caused you
> to start a new agressive thread.
>
> I'm sure that the regular contributors to this forum are delighted that
> you have obtained a satisfactory solution, and no doubt you will continue
> to seek future advice from that source, because for sure you are unlikely
> to find it here.
>
> Continue your sad life.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Roger Govier
>
>
> Tom Stapleton wrote:
>> Its too bad it takes a thread like that to get a response.
>> Bob, I understand what you're saying. Thanks for your time.
>> Ian, thanks to you also.
>> To you others, I did go elsewhere and promptly had the problem resolved.
>> But rather than help, I appreciate your
>> childish responses.