Powershell with Excel - excel

Question

What I need to do is to extract the data in the excel row and output them into different rows on Excel. After that, I will need to use the extracted data and perform certain conditions on the extracted data.
This is my current script:
To open excel and apply the formulas
$excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$filepath = 'D:\testexcel.xlsx'
$workbook = $excel.workbooks.open("$filepath")
$worksheet = $workbook.worksheets.item(1)
$excel.Visible = $true
$rows = $worksheet.range("A1").currentregion.rows.count
$worksheet.range("S1:S$rows").formula = $worksheet.range("S1").formula
Function to find the row, apply the formula and output it
function test123(){
param([string]$test123)
$sourcefile = "D:\testexcel.xlsx"
$sheetname = "abc"
$excel = new-object -comobject excel.application
$excel.Visible = $true
$excelworkbook = $excel.Workbooks.open($sourcefile, 2, $true)
$excelworksheet = $excelworkbook.worksheets.item($sheetname)
$row = 1
$column = 1
$found = $false
while(($excelworksheet.cells.item($row, $column).value() -ne $null) -and($found -eq $false)){
if(($excelworksheet.cells.item($row, $column).value()).toupper() -eq $test123.ToUpper()){
write-host $excelworksheet.cells.item($row, $column).value() $excelworksheet.cells.item($row, $column+1).value(),
$excelworksheet.cells.item($row, $column +2).value() $found = $true
}
$row += 1
}
#close workbook
$excelworkbook.close()
$excel.quit()
}
test123 -test123 "Test123"
Please guide me and tell me if this is the right way to do it... Thanks

Answer 1

Please have a look into the ImportExcel module by Douge Finke. This module has the capability to do what you need.
Get it from PowerShell gallery: Install-Module -Name ImportExcel
Github link: https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel
you can then do Get-Help Import-Excel -Examples which has pretty good examples.