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The ":Zone.Identifier:$DATA" alternate data stream (ADS) ... unblocking files that have the "Mark of the web"

How to read, write and delete the alternate data streams (ADS) for a file or folder using VBA code?

How to get a list of the alternate data streams (ADS) for a file or folder using VBA code?

Expanding and unexpanding environment strings using the Windows API.

Working with the clipboard using the Windows API ... put text into the clipboard, get text from the clipboard, empty the clipboard, check whether the clipboard contents have changed.

When working with Windows API Functions, you will often have an error number made available to the calling code. There are, literally, thousands of error numbers, and they are listed on the Microsoft error codes page.

Setting file / folder attributes using the SetFileAttributes Windows API Function

Getting file / folder attributes using the GetFileAttributes Windows API Function

The EnumChildWindows Windows API Function enumerates all child windows of a (parent) window ... and it does so recursively in that all child windows of those child windows (ie so grandchild windows) are also enumerated, as are great-grandchild windows, great-great-grandchild windows and so on. This makes EnumChildWindows very handy if you want to get a list of all such windows, or if you want to get all such window(s) with a specific caption and/or class name.

This code shows the 'Font' dialog box and allows all of the values within it both to be set, before it is shown, and read after it is shown. This means that your code can allow the user to select a font, including: the font name; the font style (eg italic, bold); the font size; whether the font is 'strikeout'; whether the font is 'underlined'; the font colour; the specific script (ie the charset).