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  Hey, Scripting Guy! We are getting ready to deploy Office 2010 to our user community, and I need to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to print a list of keyboard shortcuts for working with Microsoft Word. In the past, I was able to print a chart of all the keyboard shortcuts for working with Microsoft Word and provide it to our user community. Ho...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to convert Microsoft Word documents to the new document format. If a user opens an old document (.doc) file extension in Microsoft Word 2010 and makes changes, they are prompted about saving the file in compatibility mode. This process is confusing for our users. Therefore, we have d...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to count the number of words in a bunch of Microsoft Word documents. All of the documents are stored in a specific folder, but there are a mixture of Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft Word 2007 documents and older document types in the same folder. Our company has recently...

    Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The neighbor’s dog never seems to sleep. It is up early this morning, singing for its breakfast. I have news for the creature: Its voice is not nearly as great as he thinks it is. Oh, well, for these past several days the hound has been a reliable alarm clock. I only wish his owner ...

  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The Scripting Wife and I are on the road again. She is driving, and I am playing around with Windows PowerShell enumerations. Teresa made friends with a couple we met in the concierge lounge of our hotel in Lisbon while I was teaching a month’s worth of Windows PowerShell workshops. She has ...