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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a total page count for all the Word documents in a folder?-- RA Hey, RA. You’ll have to forgive the Scripting Guy who writes this column if he seems a little tired this morning. Yesterday was the first day of school in the Lake Washington School District and, as you might expect, the scene in the Scripting House...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I run a PowerPoint slide show from a script?-- IB Hey, IB. Talk about vindication! A couple years ago, when the Scripting Guy who writes this column first started messing around with Microsoft Office, he wrote a simple little script that could run a PowerPoint slide show. The other Scripting Guys laughed at him. “That...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I set the document orientation in Microsoft Word to landscape?-- EE Hey, EE. We think the script that we’re about to show you will answer your question; if it doesn’t, however, we’ll hope you cut us a little slack. After all, according to an exercise bike at the local gym, the Scripting Guy who writes this column died...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether the NumLock key on a computer is on or off?-- KA Hey, KA. You know, there are two problems with being a Scripting Guy. (Three, if you count the amount we get paid for doing this.) For one thing, you always have to be on your guard whenever Dean is around. Why? Well, to name one example, as we were busy ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search a Microsoft Word document for all occurrences of the string <computername> and replace those occurrences with the actual name of a computer (e.g., atl-ws-01)?-- WC Hey, WC. And by the way, thanks for your question. Microsoft employees will be getting their yearly performance reviews back sometime in the...