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Any previous communities for MS help?
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.
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.
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
Sergei, found them in answers.microsoft.com! It transpires that I am in fact using a different email address to that which I used for my old posts in 2010! (I found them by a search of a topic that I remembered posting, and I then found "me" and all my old posts!)
One final question, what is the difference between techcommunity.microsoft.com and answers.microsoft.com? For users such as myself, would answers.microsoft.com be the better community to use?
Allan
Allan, great, Microsoft remembers everything.
Which community to use - that is the question. It discussed many times here, I may only make citation from this post https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Am-I-in-the-right-place/m-p/47767/highlight/true#M4550
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Technet is for IT pros, the people that install software
MSDN is for devs, the people that create software
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us is for people that need tech support, but can't/won't pay for it.
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However, for the applications as Excel that's very big intersection. Use one with which you are more comfortable, better all of them but focusing on one.
I have tried that Sergei. What I'm looking for does not show up...so they ain't there!
I'll just have to do without them...but thanks for your assistance with my question.