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carlcwc

carlcwc

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Sep 3, 2002
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Last week I posted a question on this site which has been totally blown off. This is not the first time this has happened to me. I've noticed as I've searched other threads that people's questions are not being addressed in a timely mannor or at all.
I find this very problematic as this site presents itself as a place where one can get and give assistance. At first I found this site very helpful but as of late it seems like just a waste of time.
It would be helpful to know if one's questions are not appropriate, too complex or just not interesting enough to address. After all, you like to know when a post has been helpful. Why not return the same courtesy?
 
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Hi,
We are all alive and well. I read your posting a week ago (3/28 - "Help with setting up auto generated letters using MSWord") and decided that you were asking for a tremendous amount of work from us. You should be able to do a bunch of this yourself. When you get stuck on a specific question, then we are here to help. HTH, [pc2]
Randy Smith
California Teachers Association
 
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You didn't even have the courtesy of marking this post for automatic email notification. HTH, [pc2]
Randy Smith
California Teachers Association
 
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carlcwc,

Randy is right on with his comments.

Most of us who participate here are busy and don't have time to develop an application through this forum. What is appreciated is a demonstrated effort to try to solve the problem with as much information as possible given from the start.

If you do read this thread, you might want to check out this excellent post by JeremyNYC that pretty much says it all:

thread181-473997
 
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Speaking of courtesy, aren't there a couple of your threads still lacking your response to the answers?

TomCologne
 
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Tom,
I don't have time to do Carl's work. If that isn't bad enough, he doesn't even have the courtesy to have this thread marked for automatic email notification. Did you bother to read the post from JeremyNYC? Thread181-473997

If you take the time to look at the most recent postings from Carl, you will see that he appears to be one of those "lazy" programmers. I believe the whole idea behind Tek-Tips is to provide assistance to those who are genuinely working in a specific tool, such as Access, and get stuck on a specific point. People like CosmoKramer, KenReay, Scriverb, MichaelRed, and PaulBricker are the real experts at this stuff (I am still learning, and most of my learning is coming from them!!!).

The ironic thing is that others have posted code on how to use MSWord to create form letters, but Carl apparently won't take the time to search for it himself. (When I have the time, I will write an FAQ on the topic)

Finally, what's the sense in spending 5 to 10 hours creating the code for him if he doesn't even give the person a "star" for their efforts???? NONE OF US get paid for the time we invest to answer questions. The ONLY THING we get is recognition from the forum users via the "stars". HTH, [pc2]
Randy Smith
California Teachers Association
 
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Hi Randy,

so sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I should have pointed out that my remark was referring to carlcwc's thread, last sentence.
You are absolutely right about some people using this forum to 'outsource' their work, a lot of times without any acknowledgement, neither feedback about the success/progress nor a thanks or star. Though I can -in most cases- only offer limited help anyway, I've been looking up user profiles lately, before responding to any question, because I do not want to support this attitude. I rather continue browsing the forum than answer to somebody, who's posted i.e. 47 threads with 5 own replies.

Thanks for your response and thus giving me the opportunity to clarify my point.

See you in the forum,

TomCologne
 
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carlcwc,

Looking at your profile, you have 3 responses in others threads, all of which are asking for help on your own work.

As you have never helped anyone with anything in this forum, what gives you the right to demand answers? Wullie


The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
 
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speaking for myself, most of you guys have helped me beyond belief on my database. I was thrown into this position, and although I know the basics, when it comes to complex things (especially coding) I'm lost. You guys have been a great help and I appreciate all of your work that you have helped me through. I give stars all the time, but If you see my profile, I ask more than I answer. That is because my knowledge is more in form building, queries, etc, not in coding! Thanks guys, I just dont want you to think I'm one of the "lazy" ones. I triy and try before I post!

Cmoorejr
[morning]
 
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Man, Tek-Tips rocks! I've gotten SO MUCH help from you all in the past. This guy is obviously a n00b. I think he didn't want email notifications cause he didn't want to read all the flames...

Since the smartest people are reading this thread, I'll say a big THANK YOU again for all the help I've gotten from you guys in the past.

You guys are too nice to him. In the future, I wouldn't even bother responding to threads like this. No one around here gets paid, why should he *expect* help?

Anyway, enough rants! :) Onwards,

Q-
 
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So many replys! I must have hit a nerve. While I have asked for help on this site before, it has been no more or less in amount or detail than most who use this site. While my request may have appeared like it was a lot, had anyone bothered to reply to my original question I would have had the time to let you know how much I've already completed and what details I am too inexperienced to do on my own.
If you put out a site that offers help at no cost, why get so miffed when someone takes you up on it? I have every right to expect to be helped if unconditional help is being offered.
I have been very grateful for the help I've recieved on this site and have posted it as such.
Again, it would have been common courtesy to simply let one know that the request was too hard, too time consuming, too what ever. Just letting something sit for days without a response is not ok.
After all, hard working, time crunched as you say you are, you certainly had the time to flame me on this one!
 
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If you put out a site that offers help at no cost, why get so miffed when someone takes you up on it? I have every right to expect to be helped if unconditional help is being offered.

TT is not a helpdesk, members contribute by helping others, which you seem totally incapable of understanding.

Lets just say that I can't see much help coming your way after this thread. Wullie


The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
 
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I don't need help with MSWord. I need help with automating merging an ACCESS table with a Word letter document (I've already done ALL the work in Word and Access). I need help developing a code or macro that does the merge automatically instead of the user doing it mannually.
But thanks for the offer.
 
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carlcwc, there are very few posts that go unanswered and the reason is because the people that provide most of the answers do so because they enjoy it. In my experience, there are just a few reasons why someone doesn't get an issue resolved. The biggest reason is that the question isn't asked in the proper forum. In your case, it is marginal whether there are a lot of people in the Reports forum that spend a lot of time creating merge documents. In any case, the process will involve code to accomplish what you want so you would probably be better off going to the VBA Module forum or the VBA Visual Basic for Applications forum. My suggestion would be the latter forum. These folks know a lot about dynamic interaction between Office apps. Another reason you may not have gotten a response is that people don't have a reasonable idea what you need or don't have any reasonable examples to work data from. Providing samples of the data helps them see exactly what you are working with and where you want it to go. I had a bit of a problem following what it was you actually wanted to do so you might work on rephrasing your question. The last reason is we just don't know the answer and don't want to post a reply if we can't help the situation. Usually we assume someone else will and move on the something we do know. In light of that if no one actually shows up to help you, there's no way for anyone to really know that so berating people who volunteer time to assist others won't get you anything and it's way off the mark in regards to how we are expected by the owners to treat one another.
Now your remark that we put out a site at no cost that offers help to others simply isn't true. Tek-Tips is a members supported site that exists to assist professionals in their IT needs. We don't solicit members and we don't offer unconditional help to anyone and there isn't anything in the site that would lead anyone to believe any other way. Your behavior in this post would not help anyone believe that you are actually a Professional IT person and it has gotten you no help with the problems you actually have. I'm sure someone is quite capable of finding a solution for you and if you would try my advice about posting your question in the VBA forum, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Good luck.

Paul
 
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Carl,

Just one example, your thread702-430559, two people making the effort to reply, but my browser doesn't show your response. Since you're talking about courtesy...

Instead of claiming "every right to expect to be helped" I would have gone with the right to remain silent or humble.

Nobody participating in this forum is obligated to help anybody. And everybody is free to decide wether to spend the time on your request or a comment on your behavior.

As far as I'm concerned

You're alone,

TomCologne
 
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HI,
I must be missing something. The FAQ does almost exactly what you want. All you need to add is a field to your table that keeps track of whether the form letter was printed or not. With this field, you can then create a form, or simply a command button that the user will click, that will filter your recordset for all records that have not had a form letter printed. Your code might look like this:
Dim rstNotPrinted as Recordset
' this retrieves all the records that have not been printed
' Using the code in the MSFT FAQ you can then send each record over to your Word document for printing
Set rstNotPrinted = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("Select * from tblDonations where Printed = 'No'")

'this code will update the printed flag to Yes
rstNotPrinted![Printed] = "Yes"
rstNotPrinted.Update


HTH, [pc2]
Randy Smith
California Teachers Association
 
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Why didn't someone say this in the first place?
I am not a professional, I am, as many here who post, a novice. I've never presented myself as anything more.
I always do a complet search of the site before posting anything, since I usually spot something close to my own question already answered. When I post its becuase I've exhausted all other avenues. It isn't my responsibility to let you know I've been a good "girl" and done my homework first.
You gentil people would do well to remember that the only dumb question is the one that doesn't get asked.
Regardless of member supported or not, this is still an open forum, people use it because its available. No one is obligating you to help. If you're feeling overwhelmed or taken advantage of, then its your problem. Not mine. I just want some help with my data base.
 
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Hi,
As Paul indicated, your original post was not clear. In the future, it is best if you can indicate what you have done, and what exactly isn't working. We cannot read minds, we just try to help the best way we can. HTH, [pc2]
Randy Smith
California Teachers Association
 
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No one is obligating you to help. If you're feeling overwhelmed or taken advantage of, then its your problem.

Well if thats the case, take your own words into account, if nobody answers you then it's your problem. Wullie


The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
 
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