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September 29, 2007Sep 29, 200709/29/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of Word documents that include fields like LastSavedBy. How can I write a script that retrieves the current values for these fields?— OS
Hey, OS. You know, the other night the Scripting Guy who writes this column was watching TV when he saw an ad for a new Monopoly game: Monopoly,
September 28, 2007Sep 28, 200709/28/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that uses Netsh.exe to return information from my DHCP servers; all that information is then written to a text file. That works great, except that I need to be able to parse the data and pull out any IP addresses included in that information.
September 27, 2007Sep 27, 200709/27/07Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a new folder in Microsoft Outlook?— TY
Hey, TY. You know, this is an exciting time here at Microsoft; after all, last night at midnight we officially released one of the most highly-anticipated software products ever created: a script that can create a new folder in Microsoft Outlook!
September 26, 2007Sep 26, 200709/26/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using an HTA as a data entry online form. The easiest way for me to format the HTA is to use a table; however, I can’t figure out how to let people type text into some of the cells in that table.
September 25, 2007Sep 25, 200709/25/07Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a bunch of Word documents that, for some reason, have been formatted using nothing but lowercase letters. We know exactly how we want to reformat these documents: all the headings (which are in 14-point type) should be in title case and all the other paragraphs should be in sentence case.
September 22, 2007Sep 22, 200709/22/07Hey, Scripting Guy! My company has just created a new PowerPoint template, and has decided that we need to use this template for all our presentations. How can I apply this new template to all the presentations in my C:\Presentations folder?—
September 21, 2007Sep 21, 200709/21/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using an HTA as a drive-mapping application. I’d like to be clever about this and have the available drive letters appear in a list box. How can I dynamically show all the drive letters available on a computer?—
September 20, 2007Sep 20, 200709/20/07Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I count the number of users in an Active Directory group?— TP
Hey, TP. You know, it’s our sad duty to confirm that the reports currently sweeping the Internet are true. Without wishing to alarm anyone,
September 19, 2007Sep 19, 200709/19/07Hey, Scripting Guy! For various reasons, we don’t want our users storing “loose” files on their desktop. How can I write a script that will take all the files on the user’s desktop and, based on the file extension, move those files to the appropriate desktop folder?
September 18, 2007Sep 18, 200709/18/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file which consists of individual fields separated by commas. I need to look at the second field in each line and, if it includes the word Everyone, I then need to take the sixth field in the line and write that value to a second text file.
