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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Add a New Item to the Microsoft Office Word AutoCorrect List?

January 9, 2007 Jan 9, 2007 01/9/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a new item to Office Word’s AutoCorrect list?-- OK (image) (image) (image) Hey, OK. To begin with, we should point out that we have no way of knowing whether your initials really are O and K; after all, they could just as easily be TR, and you could actually be Tony Romo, quarterback of the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Determine the Version of DirectX Installed on a Computer?

January 8, 2007 Jan 8, 2007 01/8/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the version of DirectX installed on a computer?-- ML (image) (image) (image) Hey, ML. How can you determine the version of DirectX installed on a computer? That’s an important question, and we’ll get to that in a moment. Before we do that, however, there’s an even more ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Get the “Date Picture Taken” Property From a .JPG File?

January 5, 2007 Jan 5, 2007 01/5/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get the Date Picture Taken property from a .JPG file?-- MW (image) (image) Hey, MW. Before we answer your question we should point out that this is likely to be the last Hey, Scripting Guy! column for quite some time to come. Not that we’re going anywhere, mind you. It’s just that on ...

How Can I Clear All the Formatting From a Microsoft Word Document?

January 3, 2007 Jan 3, 2007 01/3/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I clear all the formatting from a Microsoft Word document?-- TF(image) (image) (image) Hey, TF. After a much-deserved holiday hiatus we are back, with the first official Hey, Scripting Guy! column for the year 2007. And yes, we know: technically we did have a column yesterday. As it turns out, however, ...