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Hey Scripting Guy! You are not going to believe this. I have just been given the task of counting how many images are embedded in Word documents. The document folder, of course, has hundreds of documents. I am not sure why they want to know how many documents have embedded images, but I think it has something to do with updating a catalog we prod...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder full of Word documents. The pointy-headed boss (PHB) is being particularly obtuse this week, and has decided that he would like to have all the Word documents turned into PDF files so everyone can view them. This is despite the fact that a couple of months ago he had us deploy Word viewer, so everyone can view ...

Hey Scripting Guy! I would like to be able to use Windows PowerShell to obtain some information from WMI and then write that same information to a Microsoft Word document. I know that I can use Out-File to create a text file, but text files are boring. I want to get the information into Word where I can later add colors, borders, and pictures if ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I loved your last "Hey, Scripting Guy!" article about formatting paragraphs in a Microsoft Office Word document. What I need to do is a little bit more mundane, but for me much more important. I have a number of Word documents that are stored in a folder. Unfortunately, the person who wrote those documents doesn't know how to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have really been enjoying the recent Windows PowerShell articles on the Script Center. I am wondering if it is possible to use Windows PowerShell to work with a Microsoft Office Word document. Specifically, what I would like to be able to do is to change the paragraph formatting and perhaps add a border. I may be asking too ...