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Summary: The Scripting Editor, Dia Reeves, offers tips to help you improve your writing.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, I'm enlisting my editor, Dia Reeves, to help you write clear, concise, and consistent blog posts and feature documentation. Take it away Dia...Hello to all of you who have lost your content team (or never had o...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic characters in a string. How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace a string that contains non-alphabetic characters            (such as commas and periods)? Use the –Replace operator, and specify a regex pattern '[^a-zA-Z]', for e...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic characters in a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace a string that contains non-alphabetic characters            (such as commas and periods)?  Use the –Replace operator, and specify a regex pattern '[^a-zA-Z]...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about identifying palindromes that are more than a single word. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the coolest things about palindromes is that they can be formed with sentences. It is also what makes them the most subtle. For example, whereas it is pretty obvious that mom, dad, a...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about identifying palindromes that are more than a single word.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the coolest things about palindromes is that they can be formed with sentences. It is also what makes them the most subtle. For example, whereas it is pretty obvious that mom, dad, and...