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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a right-to-left text box to a Web page?-- B Hey, B. To begin with, we should note that we aren’t entirely sure that we know what we’re talking about here. (Good point: that’s a disclaimer that could be added to all of our columns, couldn’t it?) We are aware of languages - Arabic languages and Hebrew, for example...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add multiple tables to a Word document?-- KH Hey, KH. You know, if the Scripting Guys have one failing (hey, we said if) it’s this: we’re simple guys with simple tastes. Create a Microsoft Word document with multiple tables? No, sir; that’s not for us, not at all. One table per document is plenty, thank you very muc...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the tables in an Access database?-- KW Hey, KW. You know, the best part about writing a daily column on system administration scripting is that people only see the finished result; they never see all the detours, dead-ends, and other frustrations we go through in order to produce that column. For example, p...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file where each line is a set of characters like this: 56A63, 78A41, etc. I need to put leading zeroes in front of these strings in order to make them all nine characters long: 000056A63, 000078A41, etc. Oh: and my text file has 20,000 lines that need to be modified like this. How can I do all that using a script...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return the URLs associated with my Internet Explorer Favorites?-- DW Hey, DW. It’s time for annual performance reviews here at Microsoft, which means we Scripting Guys are supposed to be looking back and detailing all the many things we’ve done in the past year. Unfortunately, instead of finding things we did do it’...