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How Can I Save Emails That Are More Than One Month Old?

August 10, 2007 Aug 10, 2007 08/10/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I save all the items in my Sent Items folder that are more than one month old?-- RS(image) (image) (image) Hey, RS. You know, we’d like to answer this question; we really would. However, the Scripting Guy who writes this column is leaving on vacation tomorrow, which means that – being an important ...

How Can I Search For and Modify Formatted Text in a Word Document?

August 8, 2007 Aug 8, 2007 08/8/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search for formatted text in a Word document and then apply HTML tags to that text?-- ES (image) (image) (image) Hey, ES. You know, it’s funny that you should ask this question. Just last night at the dinner table, the Scripting Guy who writes this column finally had The Talk with the Scripting Son. ...

How Can I Create a Sequential Series of Folders?

August 7, 2007 Aug 7, 2007 08/7/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I prompt a user to enter a starting number and ending number, then create a sequential series of folders based on those two numbers?-- PM (image) (image) (image) Hey, PM. We had some time to kill this afternoon, so we thought we’d see what we could do about answering your question. In fact, if we didn...

How Can I Add the Date a Picture Was Taken to the File Names of My Digital Photos?

August 4, 2007 Aug 4, 2007 08/4/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I rename all the .JPG files in a folder so that the date the picture was taken is included in the file name?-- NH (image) (image) (image) Hey, NH. Welcome to Hey, Scripting Guy!, the only daily scripting column on TechNet that is written without the use of steroids, amphetamines, human growth hormone, or...