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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 Hey, EN. You know, Saturday night the Scripting Guy who writes this column was watching the football ga...

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 pretty tedious...

Hey, Scripting Guy! My company has just created a new PowerPoint template, and has decided that we need to use this template for all our presentations. How can I apply this new template to all the presentations in my C:\Presentations folder?-- OI Hey, OI. You know, this morning the Scripting Guy who writes this column did what he does pretty muc...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using an HTA as a drive-mapping application. I’d like to be clever about this and have the available drive letters appear in a list box. How can I dynamically show all the drive letters available on a computer?-- JT Hey, JT. You know, just the other day the Scripting Guy who writes this column was lamenting a truly lost w...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I count the number of users in an Active Directory group?-- TP Hey, TP. You know, it’s our sad duty to confirm that the reports currently sweeping the Internet are true. Without wishing to alarm anyone, we must admit that one of the Around the World With Dr. Scripto Bobblehead pictures appears to be a fake! (And no, w...