Link to "how to ask a question"

I am trying to find the link to "How to ask a good question", anybody know where it is?

Good afternoon davesexcel

Just spent ages looking for it, without success. Then I wondered if it was tacked to the bottom of the old rules page - it seems it was.
Managed to recover it from the editing history - is the below what you were looking for?

HTH

DominicB






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I'm not sure why you deleted my reply?

What reply? Nothing has been deleted from this thread as far as I can see.

Of course not, it has been deleted......

I doubt it. I have compiled posts and simply forgotten to post them before moving to another thread, and when I've come back, of course the post is gone.

We have a moderation code, and that code does not allow us to delete posts unless they are exact duplicates, or contain something offensive, or are moderation requests that have been fulfilled.

Originally Posted by davesexcel

Of course not, it has been deleted......

I certainly haven't deleted anything from this thread.

Also, FWIW, moderators extremely rarely permanently delete a post, in spite of what some posters appear to think.
We normally "soft delete" a post which renders it unreadable, but it can be seen that a post was there. I can't remember the last time I permanently deleted a post that wasn't spam.

DominicB

So what did your deleted post say?
Promise not to delete it

DominicB

Ah, I believe that is what I was looking for.
I wanted to send the link to an OP.

The forum rules are in the process of being updated - I expect a more streamlined version of that will be available again soon.

Most of that was already in the new rule. The only piece left out was

Want to get your question answered quickly?
Ensure your question is not too vague. Don't assume anyone is familiar with your problem. While you can upload small attachments, describe your problem in the body of the post. We are fortunate to have several Excel gurus, but few mind-readers.
On the other hand, skip irrelevant details. Be descriptive and concise. Short, direct, and to-the-point questions with apt thread titles are almost always answered promptly.
Keep the scope reasonably narrow. Questions like, "How do I set up an accounting system in Excel?" might be a long time waiting.

I have now added that, too

It might be an idea to replace the yellow band at the top of the page with a reminder that the provision of a sample sheet is generally a good idea... and how to do it. There is so much clutter generated by requests for sample sheets to replace the acres of text, pictures, pdfs, word documents and (on at least one occasion) badly-taken pictures of a PC screen that we are given....