Following on from my remove ranger script, here is a VBScript that will automatically install Ranger packages without the need for the Ranger software on the network.

It’s a little rough around the edges but it gets the job done. Just drag a package folder onto the script to install onto your PC.

I used a regular expression in VB for the first time ever (I think) today! The reason is that I cached some generated ASP and realised that when I needed to use it on different pages, the id lookup for certain elements would change. So, no problem (except for the fact that I’m coding in [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings. It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment. You have four options: Install it on a PC manually (not great) Deploy through group policy with no customisations Use a deployment [...]

I found a neat post for setting auto focus without interfering with a user’s input if the page hasn’t yet loaded over at Wait till I come. It’s quite handy as it discusses the usability of such a feature.

Following my Word to PDF convertor script, here is the Excel version. Prerequisites MS Excel 2007 Office 2007 Save As PDF Plugin Same rules apply. Copy and paste the code into notepad and save onto the desktop as ExceltoPdf.vbs. <code>'Excel to PDF 'By John Reid '(c) 2007 bloggingIT – http://ccgi.maxpower.plus.com/wp 'Feel free to use, modify, [...]

Sometimes I find that it’s useful to save my Word documents as PDFs. After playing around with the Save As PDF plugin for Office, I decided that it would be cool if I could write a script to convert a job lot of Word documents. Prerequisites MS Word 2007 Save As PDF Office 2007 Plugin [...]