How to give yourself an ulcer in one evening or why Word remains minimised on...
I have just spent an extremely frustrating 3 hours trying to figure out why Word 2013 remained minimised on the task bar of my Windows 8 machine. Everything else opened up correctly including other...
View ArticleOffice365 ate my RSS feeds
Just been puzzling out why I haven’t been getting any RSS feeds for a few days. Looks like when I hooked up my Office365 account to Outlook it took out all the RSS feeds. Fun time to come putting them...
View ArticleExcel–named range
To create a named range in an Excel spreadsheet $xl = New-Object -ComObject ‘Excel.Application’ $wkbk = $xl.Workbooks.Add() $sheet = $wkbk.WorkSheets.Item(1) $range = $xl.Range(“A1″, “D4″) $range.Name...
View ArticleCapacity planning series finished
My capacity planning series on the Scripting Guy blog finished last week. Didn’t get chance to post about it as I was at Microsoft in Seattle. Full series and associated powertip postings:...
View ArticleStatus of Office software
You can also use the SoftwareLicensingProduct CIM class to test the status of your Office products. Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingProduct -Filter “Name LIKE ‘Office%’” | where...
View ArticleUpdate on Office error
Back in this post http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/powershell-3-and-word/ I showed that this code $word = New-Object -ComObject “Word.application” $word.visible = $true $doc =...
View ArticleOneNote and XML–finding sections
I recently showed how to find the names of your OneNote notebooks. The next level down is the section. You can find these sections in a notebook like this: $onenote = New-Object -ComObject...
View ArticleOneNote and XML–finding pages
Pages are towards the bottom of the hierarchy in OneNote – though we still haven’t dived into the content of pages yet. You can find the pages in your notebooks like this: $onenote = New-Object...
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