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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search for multiple file extensions in a single WQL query?-- AH Hey, AH. If we understand your question correctly, you want to know if it’s true that the Seattle Seahawks are playing in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Yes, it is true: our very own Seahawks will be taking on … well, some second-place team. This is actual...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all the formatting from an Excel spreadsheet?-- MT Hey, MT. You know, several years ago one of the Scripting Guys and his family went to the Blizzard Beach water park in Orlando. While there this Scripting Guy went down the Summit Plummet, reputed at the time to be the highest and fastest water slide in the w...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I boldface a specific word throughout a Microsoft Word document?-- SB Hey, SB. You’ll probably find this hard to believe, but when you work with scripts and scripting all day you tend to get a little jaded. You say you have a script that automatically backs up and clears all the event logs on all your computers? How n...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve information about the latest event added to an event log?-- HG Hey, HG. You know, it seems like only yesterday that someone was asking us how they could find the oldest event in an event log. And we remember how we told them that - oh, right: it was only yesterday, wasn’t it? Well, then we won’t waste any t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find the date of the oldest event in an event log?-- JL Hey, JL. You know, you just had to make a reference to “old” in your question, didn’t you? Just today one of the Scripting Guys received a letter from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Although the letter acknowledged that this Scripting Guy w...