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Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Part 2: How Can I Update Many Office Word Documents at Once?

( Editor's note : This is part 2 of a two-part article originally intended for TechNet Magazine . Part 1 was published yesterday .) Now we arrive at the entry point to the script. The first thing to do in the entry point of the script is to create a collection
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Part 1: How Can I Update Many Office Word Documents at Once?

( Editor's note : This is part 1 of a two-part article originally intended for TechNet Magazine . Part 2 will be published tomorrow.) Little clouds of dust rise from the ground like miniature tornados carrying powdery sand that drifts along lazily on
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List the Unique Words from a Microsoft Office Word Document?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain a listing of unique words from a Microsoft Word document. I know that there is the Sort-Object cmdlet that can be used to retrieve unique items, and there is the Get-Content cmdlet that can read the text of a text
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Add an Endnote to a Word Document?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a rather strange question. Do you know how to add a reference to a document in Microsoft Word? I am not talking about by using the GUI tools, but by using a Windows PowerShell or a VBScript to add a reference at the bottom of
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Count the Number of Pages in a Group of Office Word Documents?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am so mad right now, I could just about scream. In fact, if you don't mind, I believe I will scream. We have this stupid printer at work that I have to use to print out a very important report. This printer is rather slow when printing
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Monday, October 12, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Count the Number of Words in a Group of Office Word Documents?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder that contains a number of Microsoft Word documents that are all related to a specific project. I need to know the number of words in all of those Word documents. This is because the project is billable based upon the
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Friday, September 25, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (9/25/09)

Can I Find Out Who Has Access to a Group of Files and Folders? Hey, Scripting Guy! For security reasons I need to find out who has access to a certain group of files and folders. Using the Get-Acl cmdlet, I can get a list of which IDs and groups have
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Friday, September 18, 2009 12:20 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (9/18/09)

Share this post: Can I Delete All Items in the Deleted Items Folder? Hey, Scripting Guy! I need a VBScript script that will delete all of the e-mails in the Deleted Items folder. I have tried to do this, but I am not able to get it to delete all of the
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Friday, September 11, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (9/11/09)

Share this post: Hey Scripting Guy! I stumbled across the TechNet Script Center recently while trying to solve a problem I had at work. I had heard about scripting, of course, but had never taken the time to learn about it. I was able to find a script
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Figure Out Which Version of Microsoft Office Word Is on a Bunch of Computers?

Hey Scripting Guy! We are currently beta testing Microsoft Office 2010. It is awesome by the way, and I need to figure out what version of Word we have installed on our computers. I know there are different versions, and I would like to get some kind
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Sort a Tab-Separated Value File with Windows PowerShell 2.0?

Hey Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of data in a tab-separated value (TSV) file that I need to sort based upon one of the columns. If you could help me it would be great. We are using Windows PowerShell 2.0 if that is of any importance to your solution.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Query a Microsoft Access Database with a Windows PowerShell Script?

Hey Scripting Guy! I have a Microsoft Access database that I need to query from a Windows PowerShell script. I have seen a number of VBScript examples, but I cannot find any Windows PowerShell samples. Can you point me in the right direction? I do not
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Friday, July 31, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (7/31/09)

How Can I Migrate AutoText When I Upgrade from One Version of Microsoft Office to Another? Hey, Scripting Guy! We are in the process of converting from Office 2003 to Office 2007. Many people use AutoText and I am trying to automate the process of converting
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:23 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Look for and Replace a Word in a Microsoft Word Document?

Hey, Scripting Guy! The week of April 17, 2009 , you did a weeklong series of “Hey, Scripting Guy!” articles on regular expressions. I tried to change one of your scripts to open an office Word document that uses Windows PowerShell to look for a particular
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:22 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Convert to Windows PowerShell a VBScript Script That Creates a Table in Office Word?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I was looking through the Office Space Archive and came across a nice article that talks about how to create a table in Office Word . The article is interesting, but I am more interested in how to do this by using Windows PowerShell.
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