Showing archive results for August 2007

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I save all the items in my Sent Items folder that are more than one month old?-- RS 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 and valued employee of the Microsoft Corpor...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I copy two files to each of the shared folders on a computer?-- DL Hey, DL. If you don’t subscribe to the Scripting Newswire (and surely everyone subscribes to the Scripting Newswire) you might have missed the announcement that the Scripting Guys will be attending TechEd IT Forum 2007, to be held November 12-16 in Ba...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search for formatted text in a Word document and then apply HTML tags to that text?-- ES 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. No sooner had they started eating befor...

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 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’t try answering this question the Scrip...

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 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 other forms of artificial enhancemen...