The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.
New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.
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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of Word documents that include fields like LastSavedBy. How can I write a script that retrieves the current values for these fields?-- OS(image) (image) (image)
Hey, OS. You know, the other night the Scripting Guy who writes this column was watching TV when he saw an ad for a new Monopoly game: ...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that uses Netsh.exe to return information from my DHCP servers; all that information is then written to a text file. That works great, except that I need to be able to parse the data and pull out any IP addresses included in that information. How can I write a script that extracts just the IP ...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a new folder in Microsoft Outlook?-- TY(image) (image) (image)
Hey, TY. You know, this is an exciting time here at Microsoft; after all, last night at midnight we officially released one of the most highly-anticipated software products ever created: a script that can create a new folder in ...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using an HTA as a data entry online form. The easiest way for me to format the HTA is to use a table; however, I can’t figure out how to let people type text into some of the cells in that table. How can I do that?-- EN(image) (image) (image)
Hey, EN. You know, Saturday night the Scripting Guy who writes...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a bunch of Word documents that, for some reason, have been formatted using nothing but lowercase letters. We know exactly how we want to reformat these documents: all the headings (which are in 14-point type) should be in title case and all the other paragraphs should be in sentence case. Of course, it’s...