MrExcel.com in Excel Help

[Greg Truby]

Maybe this is old news to some of y'all but 'twas new for me. We just upgraded to Office 2003 around here and I was looking up something in help (to try to help a poster no less) -- in the topic "Insert page numbers on worksheets" -- the "See Also" link expanded to say "Advanced articles and tools from MrExcel.com". Well, I just had to check that out and it led me here. So, congrats Bill & Co., you're really "on the inside" now!

 

[Tazguy37]

Very cool!

Somebody at MS is paying attention, after all!

 

[Zack Barresse]

Yup, MrExcel.com has been on Office Marketplace for some time now, actually. It's not a real well-publicized area of MS though, unfortunately. I think there's some great stuff to be had there.

And MS does pay attention, yes. You just hardy ever see it.

 

[Norie]

Couldn't we hype MrExcel up by adding comments/ratings?

 

[Tazguy37]

Yeah, where the heck are these people who do the ratings?

"1900 Excel VBA Examples on CD" gets two stars. Only 20 votes, but *still*. Hmph! :x

 

[Norie]

Taz

Just submitted a comment, and gave MrExcel 5 stars.

Don't quite know exactly how these things work though, so I don't know what the outcome will be.

 

[Zack Barresse]

They're all on an average of all votes, the stars anyway. All by user comments/ratings. MS doesn't have anything to do with that except setting it up.

 

[MrExcel]

There are also a copy of real articles written by me up there. The people at QUE keep telling me that one day they went to the home page of Microsoft.com and the featured link that day was a link to an article that I wrote about pivot tables.

Of course, no one shot a screen shot of that day, so right now, it just sounds like a third-hand "big fish that got away" story.... But - you never know - maybe it is true.

Later today - I will post a picture of Zack, Colo, Andy Pope and I. We all got together in Seattle. Don't tell Zack that I said this - but he sure is a nice guy.

And, while I am checking in - Excel 12 (due out in September 2006) is going to be awesome! It is now public information that they have expanded to 2^20 rows - something like 1.1 million. And the columns go out to XFD - 10,000+ columns. I will *never* need to use Access again!