I have files that contain the same string in their names, and I need to rename the worksheets for these files. I'm trying to do so, but I keep running into errors even when just trying to view the sheet names for these files. This is the code I'm using to do that :
$dir = "C:\FOLDER\TEST\" #at home
$excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$excel.DisplayAlerts=$True
$excel.Visible =$false
get-childItem $dir -filter "*XXXXXXXXX.xlsx" |
ForEach-Object {
$workbook = $excel.Workbooks.Open("$_.FullName")
$worksheet = $workbook.worksheets.item(1)
$worksheet.name
}
There's only ever one tab for these files, the tab name is always different, but the I rename them to the same name.
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I have multiple Excel files with different names in path.
e.g. C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\report
Each file has a fixed number of columns.
e.g. Date | Downtime | Response
I want to create a new Excel file with merge of all Excel data. New column should be added with client name in which i want to enter file name. Then each Excel file data append below one by one.
e.g. Client name | Date | Downtime | Response
Below code can able to append all excel data but now need to add Client name column.
$path = "C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\report"
#Launch Excel, and make it do as its told (supress confirmations)
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.Visible = $True
$Excel.DisplayAlerts = $False
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path
#Open up a new workbook
$Dest = $Excel.Workbooks.Add()
#Loop through files, opening each, selecting the Used range, and only grabbing the first 5 columns of it. Then find next available row on the destination worksheet and paste the data
ForEach($File in $Files)
{
$Source = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($File.FullName,$true,$true)
If(($Dest.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Count -eq 1) -and ([String]::IsNullOrEmpty($Dest.ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Value2)))
{
#If there is only 1 used cell and it is blank select A1
[void]$source.ActiveSheet.Range("A1","E$(($Source.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows|Select -Last 1).Row)").Copy()
[void]$Dest.Activate()
[void]$Dest.ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Select()
}
Else
{
#If there is data go to the next empty row and select Column A
[void]$source.ActiveSheet.Range("A2","E$(($Source.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows|Select -Last 1).Row)").Copy()
[void]$Dest.Activate()
[void]$Dest.ActiveSheet.Range("A$(($Dest.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows|Select -last 1).row+1)").Select()
}
[void]$Dest.ActiveSheet.Paste()
$Source.Close()
}
$Dest.SaveAs("$path\Merge.xls")
$Dest.close()
$Excel.Quit()
Suggest any effective way to do this. Please provide links if available.
Convert XLS to XLSX :
$xlFixedFormat = [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlWorkbookDefault
$excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$excel.visible = $true
$folderpath = "C:\Users\xxxx\Downloads\report\*"
$filetype ="*xls"
Get-ChildItem -Path $folderpath -Include $filetype |
ForEach-Object `
{
$path = ($_.fullname).substring(0,($_.FullName).lastindexOf("."))
"Converting $path to $filetype..."
$workbook = $excel.workbooks.open($_.fullname)
$workbook.saveas($path, $xlFixedFormat)
$workbook.close()
}
$excel.Quit()
$excel = $null
[gc]::collect()
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
If you are willing to use the external module Import-Excel, you could simply loop through the files like so:
$report_directory = ".\reports"
$merged_reports = #()
# Loop through each XLSX-file in $report_directory
foreach ($report in (Get-ChildItem "$report_directory\*.xlsx")) {
# Loop through each row of the "current" XLSX-file
$report_content = foreach ($row in Import-Excel $report) {
# Create "custom" row
[PSCustomObject]#{
"Client name" = $report.Name
"Date" = $row."Date"
"Downtime" = $row."Downtime"
"Response" = $row."Response"
}
}
# Add the "custom" data to the results-array
$merged_reports += #($report_content)
}
# Create final report
$merged_reports | Export-Excel ".\merged_report.xlsx"
Please note that this code is not optimized in terms of performance but it should allow you to get started
I have monthly task os printing some data for pure accounting.
this data are in some excel workbooks on a hidden sheet, as it is now I have to open the workbook, reveal the sheet, print it and hide it again.
I would like to this task to automated.
All the workbooks are in the same directory
I have a Powershell script that can print every thing i one directory, but i don't know how to target a specific sheet let alone a hidden sheet
Code to print from one directory:
$files = Get-ChildItem “Y:\Booking\Send*.*”
foreach ($file in $files){
start-process -FilePath $file.fullName -Verb Print
}
how would i do this ?
The below will allow you to print the hidden sheet of a single excel workbook that you could extend to print multiple in a loop.
This will use the default printer set in windows.
$FilePath = Get-ChildItem "Y:\Booking\November\*.xls"
$HiddenSheet = "Administration"
$xl = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$xl.Visible = $False
foreach ($file in $FilePath){
$wb = $xl.Workbooks.Open($file)
$ws = $wb.WorkSheets.Item($HiddenSheet)
$ws.Visible = $True
$ws.PrintOut()
$wb.close($false)
}
$xl.quit()
To be able to print the hidden sheet it needs to be set to visible, the script handles this and then closes the workbook and does not keep the changes.
You must declare the name of the $hiddensheet so if the name is different on each workbook I would suggest making a CSV with filepath and name of the sheet so that these can be passed through and handled accordingly.
I have an issue opening a spreadsheet via PowerShell, renaming a worksheet, saving and closing Excel. The issue is when run the first time the $WorkBook variable is null. If I run it a second time the script works fine. Also if I add $ExcelDoc.Visible = $true the script works fine. Does anyone have an idea why the script fails on it first run in the form it is below?
$Path = "C:\ScriptRepository\CQC\DataToLoad\"
$FileName = (Get-ChildItem $Path).FullName
$FileName2 = (Get-ChildItem $Path).Name
Start-Sleep 2
$ExcelDoc = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$WorkBook = $ExcelDoc.Workbooks.Open($FileName)
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.Worksheets.Item(2)
$WorkSheet.Name = "CQCProviders"
$WorkBook.Save()
$WorkBook.Close()
$ExcelDoc.Quit()
While([System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($ExcelDoc)) {}
I am currently working on a fairly large powershell script. However, I got stuck at one part. The issue is the following.
I have various reports with the same file name, they just have a different time stamp at the end. Within the report, I have a field displaying the date from when to when the report is from.
---> 2/1/2015 5:00:00AM to 3/1/2015 5:00:00AM <--- This is what it looks like.
This field is randomly placed on the Excel Sheet. Pretty much in the range of A5 to Z16. What I would like the script to do is:
Read the file / Check the range of cells for the dates, if the date is found and it matches my search criteria, close the sheet and move it to a different folder / If date does not match, close and check next XLS file
This is what I got so far:
$File = "C:\test.XLS"
$SheetName = "Sheet1"
# Setup Excel, open $File and set the the first worksheet
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
$Workbook = $Excel.workbooks.open($file)
$Worksheets = $Workbooks.worksheets
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item($SheetName)
$SearchString = "AM" #just for test purposes since it is in every report
$Range = $Worksheet.Range("A1:Z1").EntireColumn
$Search = $Range.find($SearchString)
If you want it to search the entire column for A to Z you would specify the range:
$Range = $Worksheet.Range("A:Z")
Then you should be able to execute a $Range.Find($SearchText) and if the text is found it will spit back the first cell it finds it in, otherwise it returns nothing. So start Excel like you did, then do a ForEach loop, and inside that open a workbook, search for your text, if it is found close it, move it, stop the loop. If it is not found close the workbook, and move to the next file. The following worked just fine for me:
$Destination = 'C:\Temp\Backup'
$SearchText = '3/23/2015 10:12:19 AM'
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Files = Get-ChildItem "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents\*.xlsx" | Select -Expand FullName
$counter = 1
ForEach($File in $Files){
Write-Progress -Activity "Checking: $file" -Status "File $counter of $($files.count)" -PercentComplete ($counter*100/$files.count)
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($File)
If($Workbook.Sheets.Item(1).Range("A:Z").Find($SearchText)){
$Workbook.Close($false)
Move-Item -Path $File -Destination $Destination
"Moved $file to $destination"
break
}
$workbook.close($false)
$counter++
}
I even got ambitious enough to add a progress bar in there so you can see how many files it has to potentially look at, how many it's done, and what file it's looking at right then.
Now this does all assume that you know exactly what the string is going to be (at least a partial) in that cell. If you're wrong, then it doesn't work. Checking for ambiguous things takes much longer, since you can't use Excel's matching function and have to have PowerShell check each cell in the range one at a time.
I'm trying to convert multiple excel files (xls) to csv which is located in a folder using powershell.
I can convert a single file but need help converting multiple files in a folder.
But need advise on how to convert multiple files.
$ExcelWB = new-object -comobject excel.application
$Workbook = $ExcelWB.Workbooks.Open(c:\temp\temp.xls)
$Workbook.SaveAs("c:\temp\temp.csv",6)
$Workbook.Close($false)
$ExcelWB.quit()
You can just wrap it in a loop that iterates over all the files and change the xls extension to csv:
foreach($file in (Get-ChildItem "C:\temp")) {
$newname = $file.FullName -replace '\.xls$', '.csv'
$ExcelWB = new-object -comobject excel.application
$Workbook = $ExcelWB.Workbooks.Open($file.FullName)
$Workbook.SaveAs($newname,6)
$Workbook.Close($false)
$ExcelWB.quit()
}
There are caveats with this untested code but it should help wrap your head around your issue
$ExcelWB = new-object -comobject excel.application
Get-ChildItem -Path c:\folder -Filter "*.xls" | ForEach-Object{
$Workbook = $ExcelWB.Workbooks.Open($_.Fullname)
$newName = ($_.Fullname).Replace($_.Extension,".csv")
$Workbook.SaveAs($newName,6)
$Workbook.Close($false)
}
$ExcelWB.quit()
Take the lines in between the first and last and build a loop. Use Get-ChildItem to grab your xls files and then build a new name by replacing the extension if the FullName of the file
The conversion from xlsx files to csv can be done far quicker and without COM Objects - so without Excel installed - using the ImportExcel module developped by Doug Finke:
Install-Module -Name ImportExcel -RequiredVersion 5.4.2
gci *.xlsx | %{Import-Excel $_ | Export-Csv ($_.basename + ".csv")}
Or the other way around:
gci *.csv | %{Import-Csv $_ | Export-Excel ($_.basename + ".xlsx")}
Parameters available for the Import-Excel cmdlet:
WorksheetName
Specifies the name of the worksheet in the Excel workbook to import. By default, if no name is provided, the first worksheet will be imported.
DataOnly
Import only rows and columns that contain data, empty rows and empty columns are not imported.
HeaderName
Specifies custom property names to use, instead of the values defined in the column headers of the TopRow.
NoHeader
Automatically generate property names (P1, P2, P3, ..) instead of the ones defined in the column headers of the TopRow.
StartRow
The row from where we start to import data, all rows above the StartRow are disregarded. By default this is the first row.
EndRow
By default all rows up to the last cell in the sheet will be imported. If specified, import stops at this row.
StartColumn
The number of the first column to read data from (1 by default).
EndColumn
By default the import reads up to the last populated column, -EndColumn tells the import to stop at an earlier number.
Password
Accepts a string that will be used to open a password protected Excel file.
Expanding on the answer from #arco444, if you are doing this in bulk you should create the excel object outside the loop for a much more performant conversion
$ExcelWB = new-object -comobject excel.application
foreach($file in (Get-ChildItem "C:\temp")) {
$newname = $file.FullName -replace '\.xls$', '.csv'
$Workbook = $ExcelWB.Workbooks.Open($file.FullName)
$Workbook.SaveAs($newname,6)
$Workbook.Close($false)
}
$ExcelWB.quit()
Apologies I can't comment and edit queue has been full for some time, so posting as an answer instead.