Re: Create Category groups for PowerPoint Discussion Group

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No problem, I didn't feel challenged. Quite the contrary, the conversational
interplay between users of this site is refreshing. I actually wish I had
taken the time to discover the discussion areas earlier in my MS Office
struggles. Although, had I found the groups, sooner, I wouldn't have
purchased the several linear feet of MS help books (mostly published by the
MVPs) that currently line my book shelves. Anyone need a MS DOS 3.2 users
manual? :)

--
Tom Conrad


"Echo S" wrote:

Hi, Tom,

Thanks for taking my question as to why and what in the manner it was
intended -- I was honestly curious and not trying to challenge you! :-) (But
when I reread it, I realized it certainly could have been taken that way.)

Anyway, what you're saying about subcategories helping you target your
responses makes perfect sense, and I can see how subdivisions can be a good
thing. I personally think we've just yet not had the kind of traffic that
makes it really necessary. Until then, I rather like that we have our one
cohesive little corner of the universe. (Usenetiverse? lol) It's ultimately
Microsoft's decision, though, so it's good you posted the suggestion.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


"Tom Conrad" <TomConrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Brian, Echo S,

While, I am a relatively new member of the PPT discussion group, I found
it
odd that the group was one of the few MS discussion areas not
sub-categorized
into thematic areas. It seemed to me, that the recent posts (last two
months
and some of this year's archives seem to fit into the following areas:

Suggested groups
- General questions
- New users
- Programming VBA (macros)
- Drawing and animation (non-vba)
- audio video (embedding, continuous play, timing, etc.)
- Office integration (Word, Excel tables, Graphs, Outline, send to)
- application errors (including version differences)

As MVPs, you are more familiar with the posting trends, so perhaps
creating
categories is unnecessary. I do like the suggestion to prefix the subject
line with a sub cat label, and I will probably follow this suggestion when
I
post a new query.

I have been working with PPT since 97, so with almost 10 yrs of PPT
experience, I don't have a lot of questions. Since, I joined the group, I
have been trying to contribute helpful postings. In the Word discussions,
I
have found that the subcats help me to target my contributions; as you
know,
some user postings are more cryptic than others. The Word subcats also
allow
me to focus my own learning.

My current project has brought me into the VBA realm, so I have been
posting
VBA queries. I REALLY APPRECIATE the HELP, that has been given to me, via
this discussion and via the MVP websites, both recently and in the past.

--
Tom Conrad


"Brian Reilly, MVP" wrote:

Tom,
As Echo says this has been brought up before.

You seem to ask more VBA questions and you might want to have a VBA
group. We all felt that having all those in one NG area for PPT would
expose more PPT users to VBA which they might not see if they had to
go searching the VBA.PPT group. We are seeing more and more users
starting in VBA in PPT and that is a good thing.

I'd suggest that if you post, and others too, that you start the post
with a sub group name like:
VBA: How to iterate through all objects in a presentation.

Brian Reilly, MVP

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:58:03 -0700, Tom Conrad
<TomConrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The collected postings to the MS Discussion groups for Word, Excel,
Outlook,
and Access are sorted into various sub categories.

I recommend creating comparable categories for the postings to the
PowerPoint discussions.




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