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Meta Can we migrate office suite related questions to the Power Users community?

I went ahead and made a proposal on Power User that a separate category for office suites should be made. I suggest that we wait and see where that proposal lands. If a category for these question...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2021-06-08T10:12:10Z (over 3 years ago)
  • I went ahead and made a [proposal](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/281809) on Power User that a separate category for office suites should be made. I suggest that we wait and see where that proposal lands.
  • If a category for these questions is made, we can go ahead and migrate. (Such a category would also soften the "bump blow" that comes from migrating some I dunno, some 50 questions(?), from here to there.)
  • In the meantime we can discuss overlapping scopes. I think most agree that excel formulas etc are more suited for Power User. But in the above proposal I also identified two more overlaps with this site: VBA and MS Access. These sit in some grey area between Software Development and Power Users. We know from SO that what to do with VBA (and excel) questions were a constant source of conflict. Better to discuss sooner rather than later what to do with such questions.
  • I went ahead and made a [proposal](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/281809) on Power User that a separate category for office suites should be made. I suggest that we wait and see where that proposal lands.
  • If a category for these questions is made, we can go ahead and migrate. (Such a category would also soften the "bump blow" that comes from migrating some I dunno, some 50 questions(?), from here to there.)
  • In the meantime we can discuss overlapping scopes. I think most agree that excel formulas etc are more suited for Power User. But in the above proposal I also identified two more overlaps with this site: VBA and MS Access. These sit in some grey area between Software Development and Power Users. We know from SO that what to do with VBA (and excel) questions were a constant source of conflict. Better to discuss sooner rather than later what to do with such questions.
  • EDIT as per 2021-06-08:
  • My proposal wasn't well-received and it's unlikely that a category will get created. So I'd say just go ahead and migrate. If someone whines about bumping/bombardment of office suite questions, well they have been warned that could have been avoided.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2021-05-19T06:54:00Z (over 3 years ago)
I went ahead and made a [proposal](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/281809) on Power User that a separate category for office suites should be made. I suggest that we wait and see where that proposal lands. 

If a category for these questions is made, we can go ahead and migrate. (Such a category would also soften the "bump blow" that comes from migrating some I dunno, some 50 questions(?), from here to there.) 

In the meantime we can discuss overlapping scopes. I think most agree that excel formulas etc are more suited for Power User. But in the above proposal I also identified two more overlaps with this site: VBA and MS Access. These sit in some grey area between Software Development and Power Users. We know from SO that what to do with VBA (and excel) questions were a constant source of conflict. Better to discuss sooner rather than later what to do with such questions.