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.
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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.
I would like to write a script in Powershell which does the following:
Opens Excel Workbook.
Click two times enter on the 2 appearing DialogBoxes.
Runs a macro, saves workbook and quits.
I have a problem with the 2nd step. In my script enter is sent to Powershell window and I see two lines added to the code.
Could anyone help me? Here is my code:
$p1 = "C:\"
$eo = new-object -comobject excel.application;
$eoc = dir $p1 -Include *.xlsm -Recurse
Foreach ($f1 in $eoc)
{
$wb = $eo.workbooks.open($f1.fullname)
while (!$eo.Ready){sleep 0.1}
$eo.Application.SendKeys('~')
while (!$eo.Ready){sleep 0.1}
$eo.Application.SendKeys('~');
$eo.Run("macro_name");
$eo.Application.CalculateFull;
while (!$eo.Ready){sleep 0.1};
$wb.save(); $wb.close()
}
$eo.quit()
You need something like this.
$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;
$wshell.AppActivate('window name of your excel file') | Out-Null
This will focus your excel workbook and execute your send key commands.
I'm trying to insert the contents of my text file into cell A1 on Sheet1 but all I get is the filename inserted instead of the contents of the text file.
$Path = 'C:\folder\Test.xlsx'
$Text='C:\folder\text.txt'
# Open the Excel document and pull in the 'Play' worksheet
$Excel = New-Object -Com Excel.Application
$Excel.Visible=$true #For troubleshooting purposes only.
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($Path)
$page = 'Sheet1'
$ws = $Workbook.worksheets | where-object {$_.Name -eq $page}
# Set variables for the worksheet cells, and for navigation
$cells=$ws.Cells
$row=1
$col=1
$cells.item($Row,$col)=$Text
$col++
# Close the workbook and exit Excel
$workbook.Close($true)
$excel.quit()
That is because you set $Text to just the path to the file. You have to actually read the contents of the file with a cmdlet like Get-Content.
For example:
$Text = Get-Content 'C:\folder\text.txt'
However, depending on the contents of that text file, you may want to do that differently or you could end up with a messy result.
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.