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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I set Word’s default file location to be the user’s home directory?-- LD Hey, LD. Ah, memories. There was a period of time when it seemed like every question we answered in this column was a two-part question: we’d always find ourselves doing things like showing people how to do task 1 (retrieve the user’s home direct...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I open Word with the cursor positioned at the start of a specified line?-- PS Hey, PS. You know, we Scripting Guys have decided that we don’t like Microsoft Word anymore. How come? Well, as Scripting Guys we like to find solutions to seemingly-unsolvable problems: any time we can find a workaround for something that l...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In Microsoft Word, how can I change the file locations for User Templates and Workgroup Templates?-- SB Hey, SB. At least one of the Scripting Guys has always had a lifelong fear that he would write, say, the greatest novel ever written, except that no one would know about it or care about it. Well, not until he died, of cour...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I insert a Wingding symbol into a Word document?-- RC Hey, RC. In case you’re wondering, there were two reasons why we decided to answer your question. First, we just liked the phrase insert a Wingding symbol. (No, we don’t know why we liked it, we just did.) Second - and by far most important - this is an easy one, o...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the user information in Microsoft Office to match the user’s name as stored in Active Directory?-- SM Hey, SM. Back in the days when one of the Scripting Guys worked for a local university, every document in one department of 300+ users appeared to have been created by the same person; that’s because a single...