Hello, newbie here! A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I used to use a community for asking/learning about Excel, Word, etc. I'm pretty sure it was "official" and not an obviously 3rd party site. I've just joined this one thinking I'd find all my old Q&A, but sadly this has not been the case! Can anyone recall if there were any other communities prior to this one? Has this one replaced older ones? Bit of an odd question, I know, but I'm trying to pick up my old Excel habits again, and I'd find it useful to be able to re-read all my old posts!

Hi Allan, Lot of them. You may use this one, answers.microsoft.com which is more close to support; bit more technical https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home or https://stackoverflow.com/. All of them are followed by Microsoft people. Perhaps something else what I forgot.

Hi Sergei, For correction, Stack Overflow isn't affiliated to Microsoft, it's affiliated to Stack Exchange Inc.It's mainly used for computer programming questions and not specific in Microsoft products and services.

Thanks for the responses here so far, SergeiBaklan! Allan Fiddler, the way I would sum up the difference in objectives between Answers and the Tech Community is as follows: Answers == this is for tech support and where people post questions about in-product behaviors that are potentially bugs Tech Community == the goal of this community is for higher-level discussion about products, so for Excel this could easily mean something more like "I can't quite get this conditional formatting to work" or "how are you using Power Query to automate things?" Does this help?

Valid point, but on the community management side of things, the team that actually builds the product will only be found here :) Customer support agents are over at Answers, and engagement from us on the product team is pretty focused on the Office Insiders community.

Yes, that's true, but Microsoft people follow this resource, as well as many MVP:s are also here.

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SergeiBaklan
MVP
Aug 03, 2018
Hi Allan,

Lot of them. You may use this one, answers.microsoft.com which is more close to support; bit more technical https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home or https://stackoverflow.com/. All of them are followed by Microsoft people. Perhaps something else what I forgot.
- Haytham Amairah
  Silver Contributor
  Aug 03, 2018
  Hi Sergei,
  
  For correction, Stack Overflow isn't affiliated to Microsoft, it's affiliated to Stack Exchange Inc.
  It's mainly used for computer programming questions and not specific in Microsoft products and services.
  - SergeiBaklan
    MVP
    Aug 03, 2018
    Yes, that's true, but Microsoft people follow this resource, as well as many MVP:s are also here.
- Allan Fiddler
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 04, 2018
  Many thanks Sergei! Thought it might've been answers.microsoft.com but I didn't see anything of mine in there. I'm still using the same email address so any old posts would be recoverable if they were there!
  
  If you come up wth any more I'd appreciate hearing back from you.
  - SergeiBaklan
    MVP
    Aug 04, 2018
    Hi Allan,
    
    If you'd like to find your old posts and remember your old nickname/email address why don't you google on it?
    
    To narrow the search you may use something like
    
    <nickname/address/whatever> site:answers.microsoft.com
    
    in search string

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