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Hey, Scripting Guy! As part of a demonstration I do on a regular basis, I’d like to be able to open an Excel spreadsheet, copy all the information on Sheet 1, and then paste that data into a new PowerPoint slide. How can I do all that using a script?-- JG Hey, JG. You know, the Hey, Scripting Guy! column is always written the day before it’s pub...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have an Office Excel document that includes a hyperlink linked to an email address. The text in the spreadsheet simply says Yes. How can I write a script that retrieves the underlying email address?-- AK Hey, AK. You’ll have to forgive us for being a little distracted today. Today is Thursday, October 11th, the day that the...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have some extremely large Office Excel worksheets, and I need to insert a blank row every 240 lines; in that new row I then need to insert a formula that calculates the average of the preceding 240 rows. As you might expect, this is extremely tedious, and I have a lot of these worksheets. How can I write a script that insert...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve been testing your script for saving all the attachments in your Outlook Inbox, and it works great. However, I have a question: is it possible to get this script to run only against new emails?-- CN Hey, CN. Welcome to today’s Hey, Scripting Guy! column, brought to you on-location from the La Quinta Inn in beautiful downt...

Our phone numbers are stored in Active Directory as extension numbers; however, we have a set of rules for converting those extensions to actual phone numbers. I’m writing a script to create an Outlook signature, but in that script I need to be able to convert an extension to a phone number. How do I do that?-- SM Hey, SM. You know, you are look...