Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a shortcut in My Network Places?-- KP Hey, KP. You’ll have to excuse us if we sound a little out of breath; we’ve been running around like crazy looking for a complicated and highly-technical solution to this problem. It was only after we failed miserably in that quest that we began to think about what we wer...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I make sure that Internet Explorer 6 checks for a new version on each visit to a Web page?-- MD Hey, MD. In baseball lingo we’d call this a can of corn: a lazy fly ball we couldn’t possibly drop. This is a tricky little question but for some strange reason we just happened to know the answer. Thus a can of corn. ...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the week of the month a date falls in?-- AK Hey, AK. You’re probably familiar with the book Moby Dick, the story of a crazy sea captain who became obsessed with hunting down and finishing off the great white whale. Well, this question turned out to be the Moby Dick of the scripting world. When we first rea...
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to exit a loop in a script?-- MW Hey, MW. You know, when we started writing this column we intended it to be a simple little thing that answered those basic questions so many beginning scripters have: • How can I determine the current date in a script? (Use VBScript’s Date function.) • How can I echo me...
Hey, Scripting Guy! Awhile back you showed people how they could combine several text files into a single file. I’d like to do the same thing in Word. How can I insert files into a Word document?-- HK Hey, HK. Believe it or not it’s actually easier to insert files into a Microsoft Word document than it is to insert a text file into another text ...
