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Any previous communities for MS help?
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.
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?
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.
