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April 07, 2003

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When looping through colItems, the script sets the first cell of the current row to be strComputer and the second and third cells to be the Caption and the Version, respectively. If colItems returns more than one result, the script moves all the following rows—which contain the names of the PCs we've yet to connect to—down to make room for this data. At the same time, the script adds the first cell, containing the strComputer value, to these new blank rows. So for example, if colItems contains three results, the script will fill in Row 2 with the first set of data from colItems, create a blank Row 3, insert strComputer and the next set of data from colItems into Row 3, create a blank Row 4, insert strComputer and the last set of data from colItems into Row 4, and create a blank Row 5. When the loop determines that colItems is empty and that we therefore don't need that final blank row, the script deletes that row. The next row, which contains the next PC, moves up, and the script continues. . . .


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