If you are using Microsoft's web interface to the newsgroups, you won't get
much sympathy here if it misbehaves.  Better to access the newsgroups
directly, either through Outlook Express or another news client.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.misc
You can use Google to search the archives of the groups if your Microsoft
web interface won't let you see your previous messages or their replies.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wdkxc

Hints at http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm
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David Biddulph