Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I hide a specific toolbar in Microsoft Word?-- AG Hey, AG. Now this question brings back memories. When our editor joined the team one of her first actions was to make us redo a whole bunch of screenshots we had made for the Scripting Week 2 webcasts. Why? Because she didn’t think we should include screenshots that sh...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I save (to a separate file) all the paragraphs in a Word document that are formatted using a particular style, like Heading 1?-- RN Hey, RN. You know, when we first read this question we thought, “Interesting. But why would you ever want to do something like that?” And then one of the Scripting Guys remembered the man...
Hey, Scripting Guy! Awhile back you showed people how they could combine several text files into a single file. I’d like to do the same thing in Word. How can I insert files into a Word document?-- HK Hey, HK. Believe it or not it’s actually easier to insert files into a Microsoft Word document than it is to insert a text file into another text ...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder of about 1,000 .RTF files. I need to convert all of these to Word documents (.DOC files). Can you help me with this?-- LS Hey, LS. Sure, we can help you. We’re not going to, but we could if we wanted to. No, wait, come back: we’re just kidding. Not only can we help you, but we will help you. To prove it, let’s...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a hyperlink to a Word document?-- BA Hey, BA. Interesting question; in thinking about common tasks for scripting Microsoft Office applications we never even considered adding a hyperlink to a document. (Needless to say, that’s why we rely on people like you to let us know about the tasks people really want to sc...
