looking thru past messages

[Sunline]

Hi all , excellent site here , 5 star . what is the best way to look thru the archive messages , i managed to read back 32 pages and dont want to hit (next) another 32 times , might be a problem before i get to 13,000 odd . thanks in advance , kevin .

 

[Andrew Fergus]

Hi Kevin

Is there anything in particular you want to look for? If so you may want to use the search function. This does require that you sort of know what you are looking for before you start searching but the search function does have a number of features to limit or expand your search.

Andrew

 

[PaddyD]

Note though that the board's search algorithm isn't that strong - in most cases, google will outperform:

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:MrExcel.com

 

[Andrew Fergus]

Agreed Paddy.

One advantage I find with the board search is that if you know a particular poster is adept at certain things then you limit the searches to their posts. I'm not sure that is possible with a Google search - or is it?

Cheers
Andrew

 

[PaddyD]

sort of. vanity search can be effected by adding poster name to the search. Nate put some thoughts together on this:

http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=180444

 

[Sunline]

cheers , thanks guys , i will give these a go .