(Did we mention that Scripting Guy Jean Ross tried the challenge herself and scored 116? We thought that was a pretty good score, at least until we saw the scores turned in by everybody else in the world. After all, he’s the nice one who’s only trying to thank everyone for the support you’ve given us over the years.Īnd yes, we know: not everyone is good at word puzzles. Please direct all your angry emails to the Scripting Editor and not to the Scripting Guy who writes this column. Scratch that: the Scripting Editor just informed us that we won’t “see what we can do.” Instead, we won’t do anything at all.
Needless to say, the $150 million in cash falls into the category of “while supplies last.” In all honesty, your Gift Pack probably won’t contain $150 million in cash. $150 million in cash ( Ed itor’s Note: No, not this. The object of the game? Use as many letters as you can, thereby earning as high a score as you can.Īnd why would you even want to earn as high a score as you can? That’s easy: the top 5 scorers will all win a Scripting Guys Gift Pack, a veritable cornucopia of prizes including: Scripto’s Fun Book.) The premise is simple: we give you a bunch of letters and you try to form as many VBScript functions as you can, using only the letters provided to you. (Actually, now that we think about it, it’s exactly like one of the puzzles found in Dr. Scripto’s Fun Book, something the Scripting Guys handed out at TechEd.
If you somehow missed the Challenge announcement, it’s a fun little competition involving a word puzzle very similar to those found in Dr. You know, we’re nearing the mid-point for the month of June, which means that time is beginning to run out for the TechEd Challenge. Is there a way I can use a script to change the default file type when saving documents in Word? I’d prefer that, by default, documents are saved in Word 2003 format rather than Word 2007 format. Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m running Word 2007, but most of my colleagues are still running Word 2003.