How do you loungers feel about posting code to answer questions from other loungers?
Rather than write the code, I like to nudge the person in the right direction. I don’t have the time to write entire routines/class modules/chunks-o-code for others. Heck, I don’t have enough time to write the code on all my assigned projects. When I post a question to this group, I hope for no more than a few hints or URLs that point me toward the solution. I don’t expect someone else to write code for me. Yet I see many posts where someone asks a question, and they get an answer handed back on a silver platter with dessert. 
Sure, it solves their immediate problem, but does the person asking the question learn from that?
Granted if you have a mega library of cool routines/modules, and posting the code solves someone else’s problem, then that’s great. Others can incorporate those cool routines/modules into their libraries IF they have a good understanding of the code and why you did specific things in the code. They can even offer up more optimized versions of the code.
I’ll learn more if I do a little digging on my own through KB articles, help files, MSDN, books, and magazine articles as long I was pointed in the right direction.
No one’s going to learn to cook if you keep delivering them meals.
Wadda ya think? What works for you? 
or spending 15 minutes with a book or using the infinite resources on the Internet. I will bend over backwards to help someone learn, but only if they make some effort to figure things out on their own. I’ve taught classes too and most people want you to open their heads and pour in the knowledge instead of having to think (your comment about not wanting to read). I try to give enough hints and pointers of where to look for the info and if they make a sincere effort to find the answer and fail, then I’ll help 1000%. That’s the only way to learn stuff but few people are willing to do that. Eight months ago I knew zero about Excel or VBA but after reading every single page (several times) in Walkenbach’s book, and John Green’s Excel VBA books AND typing in all the code examples and playing with it in the de######s, I’m pretty confident with what I know (I don’t know it all though, but I do know that I could figure it out if I had to and that’s the point).
, I’m sure many of these posts are not from professional programmers but rather those who only need a quick fix for a one-time problem. They don’t need to create a major 15,000 line VBA program that their company is going to sell. Now that’s a different thing all together….
As with most boards, the same questions get asked over and over. Is there a way to make a FAQ thread always bubble to the top of the list no matter what?
Just brain stormin’ again. 
We tend to try to solve problems the same way over and over. If you’re a VB/VBA programmer, then all your problems can be solved by writing VB/VBA. You don’t gravitate toward finding another solution to the problem. Microsoft has packed piles of functionality into these Office apps. Only 
Woody knows a higher percentage of it than most, and he’s making it known as fast as he can. Years ago, I took an advanced Excel class and I was blown away by advanced filtering, subtotals, pivot tables and other advanced features that are somewhat buried and not easily understood. As programmers, we need to know these things or we’re just wasting our time duplicating functionality that already exists in the app. We can solve many peoples problems by just showing them the functionality that exists in the apps, and not having to write a single line of code. Also, we can spend less time writing our programs if we take advantage of this functionality.
