Alls well that ends well..
There are no rules about how / when you reply to any help you get.
From the side of us helpers, here at excelfox.com, it’s good to know that you have seen the reply. Even if you don’t have time to test anything you get too quickly, you can always give a short reply saying thanks.
If you are able to give feedback about if it works then even better.
It’s all voluntary.
Important for you to note if you are new to forums: There is also a lot of forums. They are all a bit different.
Places like mrexcel.com and excelforum.com have lots more traffic and you will get a lot more quicker answers there, and they can also be less personal because there are also “Excel addicts” there that rush in giving as many short answers in a day that they can. Sometimes the answers are useful, sometimes not, and all variations in between. Often you'll get the same answer a few times as the "addicts" rarely take the time to read the whole Thread, sometimes not even reading anything other than the Thread title, or first post at the most.!! Some of them are only intersted in getting their post count and merit stars or whatever up. But you can get lucky. Some of the best experts are there. The Moderators are mostly all totally insane. Try to avoid them!
This place is smaller, and it will take longer typically to get a response. But the answers may be a bit more thorough here. We are slightly more Human, and are less interested in short answer and questions.
stackoverflow.com is a forum specialising in very short quick questions and answers. You will get penalised and shat on if you try to be human and say Hello or Thank you there!!!
Take your pick, the world is thankfully full of lots of different colors and creeds.
Alan
P.S. Out of interest. – Have you been getting regular Email notifications of replies to this Thread? I only ask because they seem not to be working for some people. So I am just trying to see how bad it is, or whether just some people are affected
According to your profile, you are in Automatic Thread Subscription Mode - Instant email notification
So you should get instant notification.
I should too. But since a month it stopped working for me…..
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