scott macha,
For anyone programming Hal's brain I suggest searching the web and downloading the free script documentation software "scrdoc56en.exe". It's about 1.4MB in size and contains a bunch of reference info for Jscript (non-Hal) and for VBscript. If you want a reference book on VBscript I suggest, "VBscript in a Nutshell" by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs and Ron Petrusha.
I agree with Bill819, you need to study a little and then experiment. Try downloading some of the short VB scripts that are attached to some of the posts on the forum. Read them with Notepad and use your reference book to figure out what each line does. You can find a post on almost any topic on the forum by using the "Search" function at the top right hand side of the forum page.
There aren't any shortcuts. You need to read and experiment. We are here to answer questions if you get stuck, but read first.
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