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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I access a type library from within a script?-- XA Hey, XA. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a type library is a file or a component that contains type information for a COM object; type information describes the object and the things you can do with it. Among the information found in a type library are the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I put the user name into the footer of a Microsoft Word document?-- RR Hey, RR. That’s an interesting question, and probably the first how-do-I-put-the-user-name-in-the-footer-of-a-Word-document question we’ve ever received. (No, really!) But what the heck; let’s see if we can find an answer for you. Besides, this giv...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Word is installed on a computer?-- RR Hey, RR. Turns out that this is a trickier question than you might expect. That’s because WMI does only a so-so job of retrieving information about the software installed on a computer. In theory, you can use a script like this one to get back version ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I share a folder on a remote computer?-- RS Hey, RS. One of the great things about WMI is the fact that - with one or two fairly obscure exceptions - anything you can do on the local computer you can also do on a remote computer. This is the big advantage scripting has over command line tools; a number of command line...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to tell the date that an Active Directory user account was created?-- DD Hey, DD. And thanks: between the work that piled up over the holidays, the upcoming Scripting Week 2, and a nasty flu bug that’s going around, it’s nice to have a question that can be answered with just two lines of code. That’s right: t...