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    Hey, Scripting Guy! I do not know about you, but I hate having to italicize certain words. Actually, I hate italicizing all words because I do not like removing my hands from the keyboard, grabbing the mouse, and then searching for where the text formatting menus have moved in Office 2007. If I could simply type my Microsoft Word do...

(Editor's note: This is part 2 of a two-part article originally intended for TechNet Magazine. Part 1 was published yesterday.)  Now we arrive at the entry point to the script. The first thing to do in the entry point of the script is to create a collection of all the .doc and docx files in the folder indicated by the $path variable. The ...

(Editor's note: This is part 1 of a two-part article originally intended for TechNet Magazine. Part 2 will be published tomorrow.)   Little clouds of dust rise from the ground like miniature tornados carrying powdery sand that drifts along lazily on a nearly still breeze. The tires that support the ancient bus grind well-worn rocks a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain a listing of unique words from a Microsoft Word document. I know that there is the Sort-Object cmdlet that can be used to retrieve unique items, and there is the Get-Content cmdlet that can read the text of a text file. However, the Get-Content cmdlet is not able to read a Microsoft Word document, and I...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a rather strange question. Do you know how to add a reference to a document in Microsoft Word? I am not talking about by using the GUI tools, but by using a Windows PowerShell or a VBScript to add a reference at the bottom of a page in a document. I am not trying to play "stump the chump." I really do have a good...