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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder with scores of Word documents in it. What I need to do is open each document, copy anything that uses the Heading 1 style, and then write that information (the file name and anything that uses the Heading 1 style) to a single text file. Is there a way to do this using a script?-- DN Hey, DN. You know, there ha...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find some text in a Microsoft Word document, copy the rest of the document from that point on, then paste the copied text into a brand-new Word file?-- CB Hey, CB. You know, it’s kind of a melancholic day here at Scripting Guys world headquarters. That’s because the Juanita Rebels were defeated 10-8 in the opening r...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve come up with a way to imitate handwriting in a document, but I need some help. Because real handwriting is characterized by variability, I had the idea of using four slightly-different fonts, taken from my actual handwriting, and then randomly assigning a font to each letter. I think that would imitate handwriting a littl...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of reports and log files that are saved as Microsoft Word documents. I’d like to be able to search for a specific word in one of these documents (e.g., the word “Failed”) and then change the background color of any paragraph that the target word appears in. How can I do that?-- XD Hey, XD. You ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I just read your article about getting Word documents statistics and would like to know if there is any way of getting the number of sentences and paragraphs per document.-- RLP Hey, RLP. To be perfectly honest, now that the Super Bowl is over the Scripting Guy who writes this column is more relieved than he is happy. The Scr...