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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the font name and size for an entire Word document?-- CD Hey, CD. You know, this question reminded us of how old we Scripting Guys are getting - well, all of us except for Jean, of course, who continues to get younger and more beautiful every day. Note. No, that isn’t really true. However, because Jean’s...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use WSH to close a command window with a specific title?-- MF Hey, MF. You know, some things are just really hard to believe, regardless of whether or not they happen to be true. For example, according to the Big Bang Theory the entire universe was created when a miniscule spec of super-dense matter exploded several...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In Microsoft Word 2003, my documents open as Final Showing Markup. How can I change this so the default view is Final?-- CD Hey, CD. You know, this is the first Hey, Scripting Guy! column we’ve written since returning from the Thanksgiving holiday. After four days of eating, football, eating, basketball, and then a little mor...

Hey, Scripting Guy! On May 3rd you showed us how to merge multiple files in Microsoft Word. I’d like to do that, but put a page break between each file.-- CE Hey, CE. You know, when we read your email our first thought was this: no way did we show people how to merge multiple files back on May 3rd 2005. That wasn’t because we didn’t think that t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I take the last line in a group of text files and paste that information into a Word document?-- JV Hey, JV. You know, one thing we try to do in this column is focus on practical system administration tasks. We’ll deviate from that focus every now and then, but for the most part we try to address questions we feel a l...