>Bruce (and Bill),
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>This looks more and more like a "strategy" by MS - pretend that we have all knids of capabilities available to us, but in fact only one or two ACTUALLY work. Write up some KB articles gently pushing us to the lone way that works and, voila, no longer any "need" to provide the missing functionality!
>This may also be why MS is so tight-lipped about telling us what "fixes" it has implemented in interim releases. Possibly, in many cases, it prefers to keep the impression that something is still "broken" so that fewer people will actually use it.
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Well, I don't know how much to read into MS strategies (are they shrewd and devious or just somewhat careless on occasion? Sounds like questions about the Clinton White House scandals (s)). But one does get the impression that Multi-select isn't real high on their priority list...