I'm buying (if they ever show up)!

[Anne Troy]

Drinks are on me if the following experts ever show up and post here:

Dave Hawley (joined!)
Ken Wright (joined!)
Bill Jelen (joined!)
xlbo
Zathras
xlhelp
bluedragon2 (joined as Tommy)
GeekGirlau (joined!)
Dale Watson
downwitch
macrena
1William
eghtebas
JOrzech (joined!)
Steiner (joined!)
Bruintje (joined 6 Dec 2004)
Gilbar (joined!)
GrahamSkan (joined!)
fanpages (joined!)
WATYF (joined!)
sebastienm (joined!)
Ture (joined!)
Neo-mvps
rjcpjc
CrazyOne
to be continued, I'm sure
Please add your own list of WishTheyWereHeres.

http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/sg/border%20with%20red%20hearts.gif

[Zack Barresse]

some excellent people (not mvp's tho, yet!):

tactps
pennysaver (joined!)
HalfAce

too tired to think of more, but these guys are good!

[Anne Troy]

I don't know the other two, but 2nd my vote for pennysaver!

[JackInTheUK]

Pennysaver i have had few good chats to and is on OzGrid now and then, Dave is there to.

OzGrid has MSMVP post there to some Jacks friends but did you know also VBAExpress has MSMVP post here too?

Jack

[Anne Troy]

Yep. They have *special* titles. :)

[shades]

What about WillR? He has been great at OzGrid.

[Anne Troy]

I don't know what you mean, shades. Is WillR a Microsoft MVP?

[JackInTheUK]

No WillR is not MSMVP - other buddys are from the UK big meet Seatle just gone funny few names of buddies there - none as ugly as Jack thou!

Jack

[Zack Barresse]

nope, WillR is an OzGrid MVP, and moderator. just as the MrExcel MVP (Most Valuable Poster) may not necessarily be a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.

regardless, they are all welcome here! we appreciate their support!

[Anne Troy]

Right. We're probably going to use "Reputations" here...

[WillR]

Hey :hi: - I bin here for a good week!

I am far too raw to be MSMVP - I just helps out where I can :)

BTW... Shades, I have been a member for a while & have posted code... but I wasn't on Anne's list so am happy to raid my own fridge :bawl

[Anne Troy]

ROFL!!
No worries, WillR!

Those are just people I'm waiting for, but am afraid that by the time they show up, I won't notice! We've had about a half dozen people join today...

[WillR]

No it's cool to see the site attracting some great talent.... word spreads fast & what surprises me is the apparent closeness of the "Office" community... excellent.. I hope to be spending more time here once we iron a few bugs out at Ozgrid... :) !!

[Anne Troy]

You guys let me know if I can help...I keep trying to tell Dave. ;)

[WillR]

Thanks, In a way you are, as you introduced me to Mark (007), who is helping :)

Cheers

[mark007]

Will do my best!

;)

[Richie(UK)]

Well Anne,

I recognise the first three on the list, and they would certainly be great assets to the site if they were to post here. The trouble is, Bill and Dave are both so busy that they rarely post to their own sites (especially Bill), let alone elsewhere - good for them, not so good for the forums! ;)

How high are we aiming with this list? How about :

John Walkenbach
Stephen Bullen
John Green
Rob Bovey
Robert Rosenberg

Of course, we already have some MSMVPs registered here in the form of Andy Pope, Colo, and JPG.

People who I would like to see here (in addition to the considerable talent that is already here!) are :

Tushar Mehta : I have learnt such a huge amount from Tushar just by reading his posts at MrExcel. He doesn't just provide code solutions, he gives invaluable tips on how we should structure our code.
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/

Nimrod (MrExcel) : The guy who showed me the error of my ways when I was having trouble with my first VBA routine!

Derk (OzGrid) : An excellent all-rounder.

[Anne Troy]

Geetesh Bajij is also a member, and an MS PowerPoint MVP. :)

As for Mutt and Jeff...er...I mean Bill and Dave, well, they'd better make an appearance just because they love me. Hee hee. Actually, I showed Dave our testing arcade. He joined so he could play. So now he's a member in our testing database, but not here.:rofl

The rest? We can only sit here and drool about the thought of it.

[Anne Troy]

fanpages is here! :)

[brettdj]

A few more that would be good to see

Pauloguia
dragon-it
cri

Another few guys that have helped me out with queries in the past

Bob Umlas
Aladin Akyurek
Andrew Poulsom

Cheers

Dave


I'm not a fan of grouping people by their various MVP status - for example Smorgur is the equal of any one that I've seen and AFAIK he doesn't have any "accreditation"

[Anne Troy]

Agreed to all!!
:D

[Anne Troy]

:yay Ture has joined us. Yay!!

[fanpages]

fanpages is here! :)It's a business doing pleasure with you guys.

:006:
BFN,

fp.
http://nigellee.info

[Anne Troy]

FP! Your link doesn't work. You can type it like this:

(url=http://nigellee.info)Text to Display(/url)

And just replace the parentheses with brackets.
But somehow, the way it is now, your link doesn't work.

[fanpages]

Thanks.

It's because I've enclosed it in square parenthesis, and the HTML parser has add the closing brace "]" to the URL.

I've taken your advice below...

(url=http://nigellee.info)http://NigelLee.info(/url)

BFN,

fp.

[fanpages]

...oh well, perhaps complicated stuff just isn't for me!

[Zack Barresse]

Hi FP! :)

Just do it like this w/o the quotes

"["url=http://yourdomain.com/index.htm"]"Pretty text here will display as hyperlink"["/url"]"

[fanpages]

Thanks Zack... here goes (without the quotes, but this time with square braces, not regular parenthesis as DreamBoat suggested):

http://NigelLee.info

How's that?

[fanpages]

Perfect!

Thanks :)

(Except I initially got the message:

"Sorry! The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 15 seconds."...

Too fast for my own good)

[Anne Troy]

The whole idea is to show something different.

Such as FanPages (http://nigellee.info/)

[Zack Barresse]

Dave and Will had some EXCELLENT names mentioned. I can only concur with those fully!

Also:

Cbrine (joined!)
Iridium
Yogi Anand
Felix Atagong (joined!)

[Anne Troy]

(Anne scrambles to add Ian Mac's name to the list!!)


Hi, Ian!!

[Anne Troy]

geekgirlau has shown up!

:beat

[Anne Troy]

WATYF finally showed!! :)

[WATYF]

I could swear I was already signed up for this thing... (like... a year ago. :rolleyes: )


WATYF

[Anne Troy]

LOL.
We didn't have a forum then. The forum is new since May.
The exciting stuff is here:
www.vbaexpress.com/kb (http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb)
www.vbaexpress.com/forum/arcade.php (http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/arcade.php)

:)

[golf4]

Hi, Anne -

I gotta go along with Zack --- Pennysaver & HalfAce are great!!!!!

Golf

[Anne Troy]

Bruintje finally made it! Yay!! :boing

[CBrine]

Woohoo,

Zack(My Favorite Orgeonian Volunteer Training Fireperson, of course he's the only Orgeonian Volunteer Training Fireperson I know) mentioned me!!! Does that mean I get some free Beer?? Where do I pick it up, over at Anne's place?

Cal