Showing results for February 2008 - Page 4 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! I read your column about the HTA that could load and then display all the files in a folder. That was pretty useful, but I had an idea to make it even better. When looking at a log file I often see portions of the log that I’d like to copy and save to a separate text file. Is there any way to highlight text in an HTA and...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We’ve added a number of custom properties to the summary information pages of our Office Excel files. How can I access those custom properties using a script?-- UR Hey, UR. You know, the Scripting Guy who writes this column almost didn’t write this column today. That’s because he’s seriously thinking about making a ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read a list of computer names from a text file, and then check to see if those computers still exist in Active Directory?-- CL You know, that’s a good question, CL, we – hold on a second. Some of you out there look so sad; why the long faces? After all, the 2008 Winter Scripting Games start in less than two weeks...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I just read your article about getting Word documents statistics and would like to know if there is any way of getting the number of sentences and paragraphs per document.-- RLP Hey, RLP. To be perfectly honest, now that the Super Bowl is over the Scripting Guy who writes this column is more relieved than he is happy. The ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of log files (all in the same folder) that I periodically need to review. What I thought would be really cool would be to have an HTA that, when it starts up, retrieves all the log file names and displays those names in a list box; I could then click any file name and the HTA would read the file and display the ...