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Group: microsoft.public.onenote · Group Profile
Author: Rainald TaeslerRainald Taesler Date: Sep 10, 2008 13:18
oistrakhan wrote:
>>> Is there a way to order the search result posts by date? In
>>> order to avoid asking ?'s that have already been answered,
>>> I usually run a search of the group. However, when I get 20
>>> pages returned with stuff from 2004. etc. included, I usually
>>> wnd up just asking the question as opposed to doing an
>>> exhaustive search of the results.
>>> Also, is there a way to screen for posts that just deal with ON
2007?
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>> If you do the search on Google Groups, you can sort the results by
>> date. To do this, check the right side of the search results.
>> There is a link there to sort the results by date instead of
>> relevance. The more recent the post, the more likely it is that it
>> is a 2007 related answer.
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> I tried this on Google Groups but although it is possible to do
> what Kathy says it is far less readable on Google Groups and there
> are so few results per page. So - I'll stick with what we've got,
> although I totally agree with DaveZ. I wish the discussion could
> (at least) be restricted to ON 2007. Is that selfish? Guess so. In
> the course of all this I discovered you could search on your own
> nickname which is a bit neat.
Even after having sorted the previous postings you carried on, I
absolutely do not understand what you are after :-(
I'm pretty sure that I previously told you to give up using these
NewsGroups with the really dumb Web-Interface you are using at present.
This Web-Interface has just been put *on*top* of the newsgroups which
are based on the NTTP-technology. It's really primitive.
Just get a proper *NewsReader* (there are quite some sophisticated ones
) or just use what's built-in your OS - "Outlook Express" (if running
XP) or "Windows Mail" (if running Vista) - that's what I do. For me it
would really be impossible to do real *work* in here with what the
web-interface provides ....
I simply can not understand how and why one wants to *work* in these
NewsGroups with such a crippled instrument like the web-interface which
MS does put on top for the real dummies who are unable to use the proper
instruments.
It's easy enough not only to *sort*, but also to *filter* the messages
if one uses a proper instrument.
Rainald
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