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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use a File Mask When Renaming Files?

June 19, 2008 Jun 19, 2008 06/19/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change file names using a file mask? You know, like when you run the command-line command ren ??x???p?.* ?a????bc.x??.-- AM (image) (image) (image) Hey, AM. Well, the big news out of Seattle is that the Mariners have fired their general manager, Bill Bavasi; that’s to be expected when you spend $...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Remove the Speaker Notes From a PowerPoint Presentation?

June 18, 2008 Jun 18, 2008 06/18/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a whole bunch of PowerPoint presentations that we would like to share with other people. However, before we make these presentations available we’d like to remove all the speaker notes from each one. Is there a way we can use a script to remove the speaker notes from a PowerPoint presentation?-- TW (...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Remove Specified Commas from a Comma-Separated Values File?

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a comma-separated values file in which several fields have a comma embedded in the field value; that’s causing problems when I try and import the information into another application. I was wondering if there is a way to remove all the commas that are enclosed inside double quote marks, leaving all the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Retrieve Free/Busy Time From Microsoft Outlook?

June 14, 2008 Jun 14, 2008 06/14/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that retrieves free/busy time from Outlook?-- JH(image) (image) (image) Hey, JH. As we noted yesterday, the Scripting Guys are back from a whirlwind trip to Orlando, where we flew into town, delivered a pair of instructor-led labs (Windows PowerShell for VBScripters) and then – wanting...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Run a Command-Line Tool Multiple Times and Save the Output to a Text File?

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m trying to write a script that will run Fsutil.exe against all the drives on a computer. That’s pretty easy. However, I’d like to have all the output written to a text file rather than displayed on screen; that’s the part that I haven’t had much luck with. Any help here would be greatly appreciated...