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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I put the date that a Microsoft Word document was last saved in the footer of that document? Oh: and how can I center that footer while I’m at it?-- GH Hey, GH. Well, the best way to go about – say, wait a second here: that sounds suspiciously like two questions, one about putting the last-saved date in the footer, th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I insert a field in a Word document that shows the date two weeks from today?-- HO Hey, HO. As you’re reading this the Scripting Guy who writes this column is no doubt sitting in the bowels of the King County Superior Court, waiting to hear whether he actually gets assigned to a jury or not. We realize that many...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a new item to Office Word’s AutoCorrect list?-- OK Hey, OK. To begin with, we should point out that we have no way of knowing whether your initials really are O and K; after all, they could just as easily be TR, and you could actually be Tony Romo, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, writing to us under an ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I clear all the formatting from a Microsoft Word document?-- TF Hey, TF. After a much-deserved holiday hiatus we are back, with the first official Hey, Scripting Guy! column for the year 2007. And yes, we know: technically we did have a column yesterday. As it turns out, however, that column was actually written a few...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the default highlight color for a Microsoft Word document?-- TW Hey, TW. You know, any time the Scripting Guy who writes this column wants to terrify the Scripting Son, he tells the blood-curdling saga of the first TV the Scripting Dad remembers: a TV that showed everything in black-and-white only! Granted, tha...