In news:[email protected], Gene Young <[email protected]> typed: > On 5/28/2010 11:43 AM, Mark Miller wrote: > > I don't suppose it would occur to you to even look in the > help file? I did not know it was called help agent either > but still managed to find the answer in under 60 seconds. It is much more > advantageous to a person to teach him to > fish rather than give him one fish. > In case you didn't read it in the first post, here it is > again; > "Not a criticism, just a fact of life. Check the help > files first, Google second, THEN ask someone else to do it > for me."
Not to berate the OP at all, and wish he'd posted back, but one thing that a lot of people miss is that the logical process is, first you should check the application's Help and then Google (or use whatever your favorite search engine may be) for the answer, then a search posts on a likely newsgroup that may have the answer and then, still not finding an answer, ask the group. It's also good to mention same because sometimes you'll be close but no cigar in those searches and someone might have the exact search term/s you need and all the relevant information you could ever need. It also shows that you're not looking for a handout: You have done "due diligence" and tried to find the answer on your own rather than post questions on a newsgroup first. If everyone just haphazardly came to the groups for every question they had, it'd pretty much talk a lot of excellent participants into "not bothering" because they get tired of the same questions over and over when a quick search of the newsgroup even would expose the answer to the OP's query. If a question with a good subject line was asked and answered yesterday, last month or last week, you're expected to use that information before jumping into the newsgroups as a rule. This is a very gentle newsgroup and quite lenient and understanding with newbies but often groups are not like that. It's best to follow the morés of a culture and be appreciated by a long shot. IMO the worst "sin" is leaving out usefule information like OS, revision, program, revision, what has been tried and a short note on why it's a problem to you, which often results in fewer understandings of the question and irrelevant answers to it. I seldom forget, but occasionally I'll figure none of those sources will help me and go right to the group too: Big mistake; very often I'd have my answer without waiting for a response on a group if I'd just LOOKED<g>!! But I'm better than I used to be! lol HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
