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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I save an Office Excel chart as a picture?-- JB Hey, JB. You know, yesterday was a good day for the Scripting Guy who writes this column. If the phone rings at the Scripting House and if it’s for the Scripting Guy who writes this column, well, it’s never really for the Scripting Guy who writes this column;...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I prompt a user for information and then pass that information to a command-line tool?-- SD Hey, SD. efh;r9d/fjwf Sorry; let’s try that again. j ewewrj 2gr CX # 2kkkkw Sorry; the Scripting Guy who writes this column is having a little difficulty moving his arms today. Last night the Scripting Son thought it would be “...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I import a .CSV file into an Office Access database?-- CS Hey, CS. We’ll get to your question in just a minute. First, though, a few thoughts leftover from Super Bowl XLI: Overall the Scripting Guy who writes this column thought that the game was OK, although it did buttress his belief that college football is f...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I specify the tab order in an HTA?-- MJ Hey, MJ. This is the time of year when the greatest and most-anticipated sporting event on the planet takes place, and we know that most of you are dying to hear what the Scripting Guy who writes this column has to say about that. Well, here’s what he has to say about that...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Someone told me that there’s a way to use Windows PowerShell to get a list of all the open windows on a computer. Any chance you could show me how to do that?-- JD Hey, JD. You bet we can. Before we do that, however, we’d like to take a moment and salute Peter Costantini, the oldest living Scripting Guy. Peter, be...