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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a column of data in Microsoft Excel that is formatted as MYYYY (12008 = January 2008) and MMYYYY (122007 = December 2007). I need to split these values into month and year, but I can’t figure out how to do that. Any suggestions?-- DW Hey, DW. Well, it’s finally beginning to warm up here in Scripting Land, assuming you ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m trying to write a script that does something with all the email messages in my Outlook Inbox. However, I need to sort those messages by the date they were received, and I can’t figure out how to do that. Can you help?-- SL Hey, SL. You know, no doubt a lot of you who read this column have thought, “The Scripting Guy who w...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In our company we hardcode everyone’s computer to use our intranet site as their Internet Explorer home page. All our users use laptop computers, however, and when they take the machines home with them and try to surf the Web they always start off with a Page Not Found error; that’s because they can’t reach our intranet from h...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the computers in my domain, grouping those computers by the OU in which the computer account resides?-- TA Hey, TA. Well, today is Monday, and the Scripting Guy who writes this column is actually glad it’s Monday. Not that he’s all that excited about coming back to work, mind you; it’s just that la...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder with about 1800 shortcuts in it. I need to retrieve the file name and the target for each of these shortcuts in order to import that information into a database. Do you have any idea how I can retrieve this information for each and every shortcut file in a folder?-- JK HeYy, JK. WwEELL, PRobbaly THe bESS – sor...