raskew said:
Keith -
Color me dumb.
Bob
Bob,
Firstly, I wouldn't want to call you dumb. People in glass houses etc!
The scales at the top left are a link to the reputation menu. There you can give a negative or positive tick for the post and add comments if you like. Somehow these are totaled into a score that is used to reference a table somewhere that gives the assessment. This might not be exactly how it works, but in essence I think I am right. Otherwise, somebody has specifically stated that I have shameful behaviour in my past - ouch!
I was in the red before I realized the facility existed.
The comments added to mine were along the lines of "should try searches first". There is some truth in this but sometimes it is difficult for a newbie to know the terminology to search. I honestly search as best I can before every post but sometimes you don't understand the answer and sometimes you are asking the wrong question.
In my case, I was tasked with creating a database with no previous knowledge of databases, other than the general appreciation of what they are and a reasonable grasp of the intricacies of MS Office products. I read various books before I started and then waded in. I was completely stuck until I found this forum and the gurus here pointed me in the right direction. In hindsight, I can see that if I re-read the books, all the things that I didn't get would be intelligible to me now and I would gain a great deal from a second trip through that mill.
In conclusion, thanks for all the help gurus and sorry for pissing you off.
