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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Count the Number of Pages in a Group of Office Word Documents?

October 13, 2009 Oct 13, 2009 10/13/09
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(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am so mad right now, I could just about scream. In fact, if you don't mind, I believe I will scream. We have this stupid printer at work that I have to use to print out a very important report. This printer is rather slow when printing out these reports; it prints out about 30 pages a minute. It has ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Count the Number of Words in a Group of Office Word Documents?

October 12, 2009 Oct 12, 2009 10/12/09
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(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder that contains a number of Microsoft Word documents that are all related to a specific project. I need to know the number of words in all of those Word documents. This is because the project is billable based upon the number of words. In the past, I used Explorer to open each file to get...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Generate a List of All Groups of Which a User Is a Member?

October 8, 2009 Oct 8, 2009 10/8/09
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(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to get a list of all the groups of which a user is a member. I do not mean the groups of which the user is a direct member, but I need to know all of the groups. You know that groups can be members of other groups, and other groups can be member of still further groups. There is no way using the...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Get a List of All Users in a Domain Without Their Manager Attribute Populated?

October 7, 2009 Oct 7, 2009 10/7/09
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(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to get a list of all the users that have set their manager in Active Directory. We have this Web application that allows users to populate information such as their phone number, their office location, and their manager. We actually paid a decent amount of money for this application. The problem...