Search Page for "My Excel Pages"

Google Groups [«xl, m3]]

MS KB [alt] [old] [G-MS] «supp-MS, Babelfish Language Translator for Webpages and text

babelfish,

AltaVista,

Google,

Yahoo [~~dir~~], «dmoz,

acronym, AF, jargon, «wayback machine, LG, ¥Searches, Databases, and zInformation links domains, dict, dn, html, PH, TV, zip,
.

Newsgroups: Google Groups Advanced Search coverage extends back to May 11, 1981.

Location: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm
Home page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Index page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlindex.htm
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Set up a Search shortcut in your Start Menu for a search of your hard drive (#fnd)

You can search your hard drive for a word or a phrase using Windows "Search For Files and Folders" with your own preset up directory and search words. To set up a shortcut into your Windows Start menu. Set up a search using browse to set up a directory and fill in the type of files or the words to search. Invoke the search. To save the search: right-click on the search results, save into a file such as c:\temp note the file extension of .fnd which you can select and drag to the Windows Start menu, then place it into a specific spot or directory within the Start Menu. You can get to the START directory by Right-click on START, choose "Explore all Users", then look in the "Start Menu" directory.

¥ Notable Search Sites & Databases
Search help information is frequently difficult to find for a site, so most of those listed here include a reference to their HELP area(s). If you are not already familiar with a site you should also visit their home page. Return to TOP for site search.

Microsoft Knowledge Data Base (MS KB)

MS KB Microsoft Technical Support -- Knowledge Base
My search is about: Excel for Windows Skip specifying here if you use XL as a keyword below
Keyword Search: Boolean Expression Stupid as it looks, you must specify Boolean, each time.
[Boolean] [Online Answers]
boolean: and, or, and not, use of parenthesis -- no symbolic and, or, and not

Newsgroup Searches -- Newsgroup Archives -- Google Usenet Advanced Search

Google
"Usenet Advanced Search" Google Usenet Advanced Search (coverage extends back to May 12, 1981). Use *excel* to pick up the microsoft.public.excel.* newsgroup -- additional hints on my Newsgroups page. Also see my historical notes. [Google Usenet Groups Help]
Alternative(s): [ETIN] Search, Browse and Post USENET messages (smaller database).

Web Page Searches MVP: Sites, WhatIs, Program, Whois

AltaVista
web search

(use Search with Boolean) Alta Vista -- Basic Search, Intermediate search, Advanced Search [syntax] -- (portal site) --
You can indicate where you want to look for each of your words or phrases such as in the url: (address), host:, domain:, like:, title:, text:, anchor:, applet: (Java), object: (ActiveX), link:, or image:.
Choose where to search: Web, Image, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory (like yahoo directory), News.
There is also a separate Webmaster page, find references to your site url:
Site appears to be reemerging as back to it's former glory after a not so brief period of having been dumbed down to another web advertising portal. It has consistently maintained and it's unique search tokens above, and still has the popular Babelfish language translator.

Google
web search Google Advanced Search
Very primitive. If you don't know what you want Google will do very well for you. Ask questions as sentences. If Google can't find prepared answers it will also invoke search engines to help cover itself. If a page was indexed and is no longer available Google will show you a cached copy of the page. Actually it makes entry easier for people who might not otherwise use some keywords.
[Search Help] [Site Map] [preferences] [portal features]
parameters: +(required), -(must not contain), site: (address),
Phrases should be included in double quotes. Not documented but if you don't know if a name is one word, two words, or hyphenated then use the hyphen it will find all of them. if you mishyphenate ie. mcritch-ie ex-cel you will be asked did you mean mcritchie excel

Netscape Search Links Netscape: Net Search Page
Used to have a collection of search engines, now appears to have a directory of websites like Yahoo. The open directory dmoz.org probably is the same list.
[Site Map] -- (Portal site)

Other Search Engines /Portals Ask Jeeves [Help],   refdesk.com,   Excite Precision Search,   ~~GoTo~~ Overture,   Hotbot & Lycos,   Look Smart,   Lycos [site map] ; [Help],
Newsite added is refdesk.com heard about it on MSNBC "Power Lunch" Oct 10, 2001
Collections of Links: Search Systems -- collection of Public Records sites
Learned about Search Systems from PC World Fifty Timesaving Web Sites, Feb 2003
«Open Directory Project (dmoz)« - All the Web - AltaVista - Google - HotBot - Netscape - Northern Light [news] - Yahoo
Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching

Yahoo
(big list)
My Yahoo An organized list is a great way to find web pages that specifically address a topic. Recommend using power search at AltaVista to search using something like:
url:yahoo.com & excel & ("bar code" | bar code)

Yahoo has set up it's own searches: [Search Help] [no Site Map] [preferences] [portal features]
A new feature for Yahoo is you can use a prefix shortcuts of map, weather, news, (zip/subject), and define.

Additional Search Engines Links and Descriptive Summaries.
Search engine Toolbars: Google, Yahoo

Internet Archives -- wayback machine

Archives You can find old copies or missing web pages by feeding in the URL that you need into the wayback machine, in fact 10 billion web pages were archived when unveiled on October 24th, 2001. Also archives UseNet, but for UseNet you might want to look at Newsgroup Searches (above). Alexa [see privacy policy] and the Internet Archive have stored over 100 terabyte's worth of Web pages and add about one billion pages per month. To put some perspective on the matter, the entire Library of Congress is estimated to hold about 20 terabytes of information.   Prefixing a broken link with "http://web.archive.org/web/" will probably get an acceptable page until you can find an updated link if there is one.   i.e. http://web.archive.org/web/http://raven.cybercom.com/~grandpa/gdsindex.html

Return to top of Notable Search Sites & Databases Table, Return to TOP for site search., [My Excel Pages], [index]
Google Groups [«xl],   MS KB [alt] [old] [G-MS] «supp-MS,   babelfish,  AltaVista, Google, Yahoo [dir], «dmoz, acronym, AF, jargon, «wayback machine, LG

z Additional Search and Information Things

Identification of an Internet Site and Domain names

Domain names (domain)|name|company|IP|(NIC)Handle [Whois] -- you may have to use a prefix, see notes on whois page. Two Letter domain name code [TLD] countries -- once you have gone to the domain registry agency for the id you may have to look hard for a Whois link. Smart Whois« domains around the world , Domain name registries around the world [TLD], Web Interface to Whois [inaccurate], UXN Combat Spam, SpamCop, Spam fighting links unrelated to SpamCop.net (why does this click every 5 seconds), || What's my IP Address

Other things

Acronyms acronym search - Univ. of Cork   AFAIK, As Far As I Know. BTW, By The Way. FYI, For Your Information. FWIW, For What It's Worth. HTH, Hope This Helps. IOW, In Other Words. OBTW, Oh By The Way. OTOH, On The Other Hand. TIA, Thanks In Advance.
Jargon File Resources: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ -- STFW
More acronym servers via http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Acronyms_and_Abbreviations/
Airline Flights
/ Travel FlightArrivals.com - Flight Listings,   Yahoo! Search Results for airlines   lowest fare
Travel Links,   Currency-converter [alt] [2], CDC Travelers' Health

Dictionaries, References American Heritage Dictionary, Wikipedia, Encarta(Microsoft) Reference Area, Additional Reference Sites *, dictionary.com,   ~~Merriam Webster~~(pay)   (stay clear of the electric library it is payfor subscription based) // Useless Information,   The Word Spy,   Encyclopædia Britannica on-line loads of ads, // off-topic: Reason & Logic
Dewey(DDC), History Links // Calculators On-Line (over 16,675), Webopedia

Downloads/ Help /Updates PC World, ZDNET, TechTV, Office Update, Windows Update,

HTML coding W3.org,   HTML 4 spec   Index of the HTML 4.0 Elements   Validator   -- HTML-kit (includes HTML Tidy)   -- HTML 101 Tutorial, USD   -- HTMLWORKS

Library LOC,   Gutenberg Project

Maps MapQuest (map size too small) also aerial view; (ugly) Mapblast street maps (navigation poor)-- Use phone number for easiest access to maps to avoid hassle with userid access (see Phone section),   Map Point, Maps on Us, Encarta Road Map, EarthaMaps (Delorme), Maps in general and especially street maps have too much trial and error in use suffering from at least one of the following problems: size of map is too small so there is no zoom value that works well even if somewhat familiar with the area, inability to recenter on a point (navigate), lack of resizing option, street names missing or obscured. None of the above maps work very well online with phone connection.
National Mapping Information (USGS), GISDATA Web Mapping Portal, EROS Data Center (Earth Resources Observation Systems), satellite images(new), || Topographical USGS: TopoZone, Mapping,    MapFinder, || US population: Tiger Mapping Service (US Census).
Recreation Index (USGS): hiking; || TerraServer (MSN) hiking, streets, topo, aerial || Install TerraClient to print Satellite images and superimposed Road Maps (986KB download).

Maps (Europe) US and Europe: Expedia [Maps], Europe: Driving Distances (Shell), others: Australia,

Medicine eMedicine, Merck, CDC, Univ.Phil., Yahoo: [Medical Schools],

News / current CNN [Sci-Tech],    Google,    ZDNet Anchor Desk,   Yahoo (Daily News) (My)

Newsletters LockerGnome Search,   Computer Companion

Phone / name
address (US) AT&T (r),   PhoneNumber.com,   AnyWho AT&T (Reverse),   White Pages and Reverse by phone/address(street) uses MapQuest(street map/aerial photo),   ~~555-1212 (reverse)~~pay,   area/city/ST~~(Ads)~~   Yahoo,   SuperPages(Verizon) zip+4,
[InfoSpace - Canada],   ~~Dialpad~~pay,   ~~Net2Phone~~ pay~~free 5 min. calls within US~~, World Directories (teldir),    -- US 10-10phonerates dial around,   North American Area code regions,    Embassyworld

Popularity
Links Popdex : the website popularity index,
Public Records Search Systems - Largest Free Public Records Database Collection

Repair How Stuff Works,

States (us.) Consumer Contacts, DMV, FindLaw, Gov. sites, Road Conditions, State Statutes, Trails^^, Vital Records, (warning one of the sites may link to pop-up ads and redirection upon exiting)

Translation Translates between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, use babelfish or Systran
Babelfish now also translates between English and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Note go%46com, which provided Translator.go%46com is another lost company.

TV/Radio TV Guide (with links to individual station listings), Yahoo || Radio-Locator

US govt. House,   Senate,   Info -- Official Search Site,
Travel: Warnings, t.Abroad, World Factbook, Citizens' Handbook

Weather (US) Weather   Accu (has hourly forecasts);   intellicast   wunderground;   || Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset (for any date)

www Domain names (see above)
Zip codes ZIP+4   USPS - The United States Postal Service (Postal Service, Post Office);   US rates -- Canadian,   UK | Royal Mail,   -- Others: [1] [2]   Postal Addresses (world)

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Microsoft Knowledge Data Base (MS KB)
MS KB	Microsoft Technical Support -- Knowledge Base My search is about: Excel for Windows Skip specifying here if you use XL as a keyword below Keyword Search: Boolean Expression Stupid as it looks, you must specify Boolean, each time. [Boolean] [Online Answers] boolean: and, or, and not, use of parenthesis -- no symbolic and, or, and not
Newsgroup Searches -- Newsgroup Archives -- Google Usenet Advanced Search
Google "Usenet Advanced Search"	Google Usenet Advanced Search (coverage extends back to May 12, 1981). Use excel to pick up the microsoft.public.excel.* newsgroup -- additional hints on my Newsgroups page. Also see my historical notes. [Google Usenet Groups Help] Alternative(s): [ETIN] Search, Browse and Post USENET messages (smaller database).
Web Page Searches MVP: Sites, WhatIs, Program, Whois
AltaVista web search (use Search with Boolean)	Alta Vista -- Basic Search, Intermediate search, Advanced Search [syntax] -- (portal site) -- You can indicate where you want to look for each of your words or phrases such as in the url: (address), host:, domain:, like:, title:, text:, anchor:, applet: (Java), object: (ActiveX), link:, or image:. Choose where to search: Web, Image, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory (like yahoo directory), News. There is also a separate Webmaster page, find references to your site url: Site appears to be reemerging as back to it's former glory after a not so brief period of having been dumbed down to another web advertising portal. It has consistently maintained and it's unique search tokens above, and still has the popular Babelfish language translator.
Google web search	Google Advanced Search Very primitive. If you don't know what you want Google will do very well for you. Ask questions as sentences. If Google can't find prepared answers it will also invoke search engines to help cover itself. If a page was indexed and is no longer available Google will show you a cached copy of the page. Actually it makes entry easier for people who might not otherwise use some keywords. [Search Help] [Site Map] [preferences] [portal features] parameters: +(required), -(must not contain), site: (address), Phrases should be included in double quotes. Not documented but if you don't know if a name is one word, two words, or hyphenated then use the hyphen it will find all of them. if you mishyphenate ie. mcritch-ie ex-cel you will be asked did you mean mcritchie excel
Netscape Search Links	Netscape: Net Search Page Used to have a collection of search engines, now appears to have a directory of websites like Yahoo. The open directory dmoz.org probably is the same list. [Site Map] -- (Portal site)
Other Search Engines /Portals	Ask Jeeves [Help], refdesk.com, Excite Precision Search, ~~GoTo~~ Overture, Hotbot & Lycos, Look Smart, Lycos [site map] ; [Help], Newsite added is refdesk.com heard about it on MSNBC "Power Lunch" Oct 10, 2001 Collections of Links: Search Systems -- collection of Public Records sites Learned about Search Systems from PC World Fifty Timesaving Web Sites, Feb 2003 «Open Directory Project (dmoz)« - All the Web - AltaVista - Google - HotBot - Netscape - Northern Light [news] - Yahoo Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching
Yahoo (big list) My Yahoo	An organized list is a great way to find web pages that specifically address a topic. Recommend using power search at AltaVista to search using something like: url:yahoo.com & excel & ("bar code" \| bar code) Yahoo has set up it's own searches: [Search Help] [no Site Map] [preferences] [portal features] A new feature for Yahoo is you can use a prefix shortcuts of map, weather, news, (zip/subject), and define.
Additional Search Engines Links and Descriptive Summaries. Search engine Toolbars: Google, Yahoo
Internet Archives -- wayback machine
Archives	You can find old copies or missing web pages by feeding in the URL that you need into the wayback machine, in fact 10 billion web pages were archived when unveiled on October 24th, 2001. Also archives UseNet, but for UseNet you might want to look at Newsgroup Searches (above). Alexa [see privacy policy] and the Internet Archive have stored over 100 terabyte's worth of Web pages and add about one billion pages per month. To put some perspective on the matter, the entire Library of Congress is estimated to hold about 20 terabytes of information. Prefixing a broken link with "http://web.archive.org/web/" will probably get an acceptable page until you can find an updated link if there is one. i.e. http://web.archive.org/web/http://raven.cybercom.com/~grandpa/gdsindex.html
Return to top of Notable Search Sites & Databases Table, Return to TOP for site search., [My Excel Pages], [index] Google Groups [«xl], MS KB [alt] [old] [G-MS] «supp-MS, babelfish, AltaVista, Google, Yahoo [dir], «dmoz, acronym, AF, jargon, «wayback machine, LG

Identification of an Internet Site and Domain names
Domain names	(domain)\|name\|company\|IP\|(NIC)Handle [Whois] -- you may have to use a prefix, see notes on whois page. Two Letter domain name code [TLD] countries -- once you have gone to the domain registry agency for the id you may have to look hard for a Whois link. Smart Whois« domains around the world , Domain name registries around the world [TLD], Web Interface to Whois [inaccurate], UXN Combat Spam, SpamCop, Spam fighting links unrelated to SpamCop.net (why does this click every 5 seconds), \|\| What's my IP Address
Other things
Acronyms	acronym search - Univ. of Cork AFAIK, As Far As I Know. BTW, By The Way. FYI, For Your Information. FWIW, For What It's Worth. HTH, Hope This Helps. IOW, In Other Words. OBTW, Oh By The Way. OTOH, On The Other Hand. TIA, Thanks In Advance. Jargon File Resources: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ -- STFW More acronym servers via http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Acronyms_and_Abbreviations/
Airline Flights / Travel	FlightArrivals.com - Flight Listings, Yahoo! Search Results for airlines lowest fare Travel Links, Currency-converter [alt] [2], CDC Travelers' Health
Dictionaries, References	American Heritage Dictionary, Wikipedia, Encarta(Microsoft) Reference Area, Additional Reference Sites *, dictionary.com, ~~Merriam Webster~~(pay) (stay clear of the electric library it is payfor subscription based) // Useless Information, The Word Spy, Encyclopædia Britannica on-line loads of ads, // off-topic: Reason & Logic Dewey(DDC), History Links // Calculators On-Line (over 16,675), Webopedia
Downloads/ Help /Updates	PC World, ZDNET, TechTV, Office Update, Windows Update,
HTML coding	W3.org, HTML 4 spec Index of the HTML 4.0 Elements Validator -- HTML-kit (includes HTML Tidy) -- HTML 101 Tutorial, USD -- HTMLWORKS
Library	LOC, Gutenberg Project
Maps	MapQuest (map size too small) also aerial view; (ugly) Mapblast street maps (navigation poor)-- Use phone number for easiest access to maps to avoid hassle with userid access (see Phone section), Map Point, Maps on Us, Encarta Road Map, EarthaMaps (Delorme), Maps in general and especially street maps have too much trial and error in use suffering from at least one of the following problems: size of map is too small so there is no zoom value that works well even if somewhat familiar with the area, inability to recenter on a point (navigate), lack of resizing option, street names missing or obscured. None of the above maps work very well online with phone connection. National Mapping Information (USGS), GISDATA Web Mapping Portal, EROS Data Center (Earth Resources Observation Systems), satellite images(new), \|\| Topographical USGS: TopoZone, Mapping, MapFinder, \|\| US population: Tiger Mapping Service (US Census). Recreation Index (USGS): hiking; \|\| TerraServer (MSN) hiking, streets, topo, aerial \|\| Install TerraClient to print Satellite images and superimposed Road Maps (986KB download).
Maps (Europe)	US and Europe: Expedia [Maps], Europe: Driving Distances (Shell), others: Australia,
Medicine	eMedicine, Merck, CDC, Univ.Phil., Yahoo: [Medical Schools],
News / current	CNN [Sci-Tech], Google, ZDNet Anchor Desk, Yahoo (Daily News) (My)
Newsletters	LockerGnome Search, Computer Companion
Phone / name address (US)	AT&T (r), PhoneNumber.com, AnyWho AT&T (Reverse), White Pages and Reverse by phone/address(street) uses MapQuest(street map/aerial photo), ~~555-1212 (reverse)~~pay, area/city/ST~~(Ads)~~ Yahoo, SuperPages(Verizon) zip+4, [InfoSpace - Canada], ~~Dialpad~~pay, ~~Net2Phone~~ pay~~free 5 min. calls within US~~, World Directories (teldir), -- US 10-10phonerates dial around, North American Area code regions, Embassyworld
Popularity Links	Popdex : the website popularity index,
Public Records	Search Systems - Largest Free Public Records Database Collection
Repair	How Stuff Works,
States (us.)	Consumer Contacts, DMV, FindLaw, Gov. sites, Road Conditions, State Statutes, Trails^^, Vital Records, (warning one of the sites may link to pop-up ads and redirection upon exiting)
Translation	Translates between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, use babelfish or Systran Babelfish now also translates between English and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Note go%46com, which provided Translator.go%46com is another lost company.
TV/Radio	TV Guide (with links to individual station listings), Yahoo \|\| Radio-Locator
US govt.	House, Senate, Info -- Official Search Site, Travel: Warnings, t.Abroad, World Factbook, Citizens' Handbook
Weather (US)	Weather Accu (has hourly forecasts); intellicast wunderground; \|\| Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset (for any date)
www	Domain names (see above)
Zip codes	ZIP+4 USPS - The United States Postal Service (Postal Service, Post Office); US rates -- Canadian, UK \| Royal Mail, -- Others: [1] [2] Postal Addresses (world)