I am currently working on a script where I use several arrays to lookup inventory lists in Excel. After running a few tests I can get my script to read the contents of each cell (thanks to some research from this site!) but I can't use the contents of the cell in a variable. I receive an "Invalid Index" error when I try to switch to a worksheet using contents from one of the cells being read. I've also added an example of how the data is arranged.
#Test array
$array = "Dog", "Cat", "Mouse", "Tiger"
#Location of the Excel file to edit
$FileLoc = "Q:\Cutsheet.xlsx"
#Create Excel Com Object, and display it
$excel = new-object -com Excel.Application
$excel.visible = $true
#Open Workbook
$workbooks = $excel.workbooks.Open($FileLoc)
$worksheets = $workbooks.Worksheets
$worksheet = $worksheets.item("DATA")
#opens inventory workbook
$source = $excel.workbooks.Open("Q:\inventory.xlsx")
$sourceSheets = $source.Worksheets
<#
#This loop will search for match element of the array with a corresponding cell on an excel spreadsheet.
#That cell is grouped with several names of inventory worksheet names. The script will copy each inventory
#and append it to the existing cutsheet.
#>
foreach($element in $array) {
for ($i = 9; $i -lt 20; $i++) {
if ($worksheet.Cells.Item($i, 1).Text -eq $element) {
$j = 2
while ($worksheet.Cells.Item($i, $j).Text -ne "") {
Write-Host $worksheet.Cells.Item($i, $j).Value2
$name = $worksheet.Cells.Item($i, $j).Value2
$sourceSheet = $sourceSheets.Item($name)
$sourceSheet.Copy([system.type]::missing, $worksheets)
$j++
}
}
}
}
Example spreadsheet
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I would like to search for a string in a column. If it finds that string, I would like the script to replace the string in another cell - same row, different column. So my columns are like this...
screenshot
I want to search for "Hours" or "Hrs" in column "Unit Type" and when it finds it, I want to change the "Job ID" in that same row to 3289. Here's what I got so far and nothing seems to happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
$excelFile = "C:\do\BEFORE.xls"
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($excelFile)
$worksheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item("Sheet1")
$rowCount = $worksheet.usedrange.rows.count
Select-Object "Acct", "Customer_Name", "Invoice","Inv_Date","Cost_ID","Job_ID","Description","Hours", "Quantity", "Price", "Unit_Type", "Amount"
foreach ($row in $excelFile) {
if ($row.Unit_Type -eq "Hours") {
$row.Job_ID = "3289"
}
}
$WorkBook.Save()
$WorkBook.Close()
The Select-Object command is not doing anything as you're not providing it any data. Though that doesn't matter much since you're dealing with an excel com object. You'll need to specify which column you're checking and I find it's easiest to use a for loop. We will start on row 2 since the first row is the headers. Based on your example the Unit Type column is 6 and the Job ID column is 1. You also wanted to check for either hours or hrs so a regex match would be an appropriate approach.
$excelFile = "C:\do\BEFORE.xls"
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($excelFile)
$worksheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item("Sheet1")
$rowCount = $worksheet.usedrange.rows.count
$unittypecolumn = 6
$jobidcolumn = 1
for($i = 2; $i -le $rowCount; $i++)
{
if($worksheet.Cells($i,$unittypecolumn).Value2 -match "hours|hrs")
{
$worksheet.Cells($i,$jobidcolumn).Value2 = "3289"
}
}
$WorkBook.Save()
$WorkBook.Close()
I'm trying to write data to specific column in an Excel spreadsheet with PowerShell. I would like to start below last row with data and continiue downwards. On machine I don't have Excel installed so COM won't work for me. I'm currently using Import-Excel to read whole sheet and used Open-ExcelPackage to read specific cell values.
I could do this in CSV file as opposed to .xlsx if it's easier.
Any help would be great!
Download PSExcel module from https://github.com/RamblingCookieMonster/PSExcel Import it using Import-Module.
Then use the following code:
$File = "Path to xlxs file"
$WSName = "SheetName"
$Excel = New-Excel -Path $File
$Worksheet = $Excel | Get-WorkSheet -Name $WSName
$SampleRows = #()
$SampleRows += [PSCustomObject]#{"A" = 1; "B" = 2; "C" = 3; "F" = 4 }
$row_to_insert = $SampleRows.count
$Worksheet.InsertRow($Worksheet.Dimension.Rows,$row_to_insert)
$WorkSheet.Cells["$($Worksheet.Dimension.Start.Address -replace ""\d"")$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Row):$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Address)"].Copy($WorkSheet.Cells["$($Worksheet.Dimension.Start.Address -replace ""\d"")$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Row - $row_to_insert):$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Address -replace ""\d"")$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Row - $row_to_insert)"]);
$WorkSheet.Cells["$($Worksheet.Dimension.Start.Address -replace ""\d"")$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Row):$($Worksheet.Dimension.End.Address)"] | % {$_.Value = ""}
ForEach ($Row in $SampleRows) {
ForEach ($data in $Row.PSObject.Properties.Name) {
$WorkSheet.Cells["$data$($Worksheet.Dimension.Rows)"].Value = $SampleRow.$data
}
}
$Excel | Close-Excel -Save
This code adds 1 row after the last row in the selected worksheet and adds values to this row from $SampleRows.... I think you got the idea. if you need add more rows to $SampleRows array.
I am new to Powershell and I have an excel sheet that contains a list of subnets in column E for different store numbers 1 - 2500, store numbers are held in column B.
I want to read the store number from user and output the subnet from COLUMN E to a variable.
This is what I have so far..
$FilePath = "C:\temp\IP.xlsx"
$SheetName = "STORE SUBNET MASK"
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$WorkBook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($FilePath)
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item($SheetName)
$num = Read-Host "Store number"
$Range = $Worksheet.Range("B1").EntireColumn
$Search = $Range.find($num)
$Search.value() = "2"
$WorkBook.Close()
$Excel.Quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($Excel)
What I am hoping to achieve is user inputs for example store 10 .. powershell checks column B for 10 and assigns what is in column E for that row to a variable.
Remove your code $Search.value() = "2" since it doesn't do anything.
Place Write-Host $search.offset(0,3).Text after $Search = $Range.find($num)
I'm trying to count the cell number of the first row (A1-D1) which is known as header and get that count as the counter.
As all the while find most of them using Usedrange to count the columns:
$headercolcount=($worksheet.UsedRange.Columns).count
But UsedRange will capture maximum count in the whole activesheet, which resulting not identical to the column count in first row if there is extra content data below the header.
I only wish to grab just the first row:
[]
Update:
For clearer view, here is an example.
As 1F & 1G there are no value present, so the answer should be 5 as 1A-1E as it contains data. So how should I grab the 5 correctly?
[]
Get-Process excel | Stop-Process -Force
# Specify the path to the Excel file and the WorkSheet Name
$FilePath = "C:\temp\A_A.xlsx"
$SheetName = "Blad1" # In english this is probably Sheet1
# Create an Object Excel.Application using Com interface
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
# Disable the 'visible' property so the document won't open in excel
$objExcel.Visible = $false
$objExcel.DisplayAlerts = $false
# Open Excel file and in $WorkBook
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($FilePath)
# Load WorkSheet 'Blad 1' in variable Worksheet
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item($SheetName)
$xlup = -4162
$lastRow = $WorkSheet.cells.Range("A1048576").End($xlup).row
# get the highest amount of columns
$colMax = ($WorkSheet.UsedRange.Columns).count
# initiatie a counter
$count = $null
# set the column you'd like to count
$row = 1
for ($i = 0; $i -le $colMax; $i++){
if($worksheet.rows.Item("$row").columns.Item($i+1).text){
$count++
}
}
$count
This should work. It takes the highest amount of columns. It then loops until it reaches that amount. During the loop it checks if the cell on that row is filled or not, if it is, it adds to the counter.
If you have millions of lines, this might not be the best way but this works for me.
I've testes it with an excel file:
With
$row = 1 this will give : 5
$row = 2 this will give : 6
$row = 3 this will give : 7
$row = 4 this will give : 8
# Specify the path to the Excel file and the WorkSheet Name
$FilePath = "C:\temp\A_A.xlsx"
$SheetName = "Blad1" # In english this is probably Sheet1
# Create an Object Excel.Application using Com interface
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
# Disable the 'visible' property so the document won't open in excel
$objExcel.Visible = $false
$objExcel.DisplayAlerts = $false
# Open Excel file and in $WorkBook
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($FilePath)
# Load WorkSheet 'Blad 1' in variable Worksheet
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item($SheetName)
$xlup = -4162
$lastRow = $WorkSheet.cells.Range("A1048576").End($xlup).row
$amountofcolumns = $worksheet.UsedRange.Rows(1).Columns.Count
#OUTPUT
write-host "Last Used row:" $lastRow
Write-host "Amount of columns" $amountofcolumns
#show all columnnames
for($i = 1 ; $i -le $amountofcolumns; $i++){
$worksheet.Cells.Item(1,$i).text
}
This will show you how many rows you have AND will show you all values in the first row , ergo your titles.
I have a problem with powershell and excel.
First of all my powershell version is 2 and excel version is 2010 x86.
My code is:
#Start Excel
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel") | Out-Null
$ObjXls = New-Object "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass"
$ObjXls.Visible = $False
$ObjXls.ScreenUpdating = $False
$ObjXls.DisplayAlerts = $False
#Open the template workbook
[String] $Private:TemplateFilePath = "$($Params['TEMPLATE_PATH'])\$TemplateFileName"
WriteLog -Message "Template file: $TemplateFilePath"
$WbXls = $ObjXls.Workbooks.open($TemplateFilePath)
$WbXls.RefreshAll()
#Counting Pivot Tables
ForEach ($sheet in $WbXls.Worksheets)
{
if ($sheet.Name -ne "LiteDB") {
[int]$count = $sheet.PivotTables.Count
[string]$sheetname = $sheet.Name
writelog ($sheetname + " --- " + $count)
For ($i = 0; $i -le $sheet.PivotTables.Count; $i++) {
if (-not $sheet.PivotTables($i).RefreshTable()) {throw "Unable to refresh PivotTable"}
$sheet.PivotTables($i).RefreshTable()
$sheet.PivotTables($i).PivotFields("Week").CurrentPage=$Currentweek
}
}
}
To be clear the "Writelog" command is a library created by me to generate a logfile, it
works so don't worry about it.
The output is the name of the sheets and the count of the pivot tables... but:
NS --- 0, SM --- 0, QTY --- 0
On each sheet i have one pivot table, but what is wrong? why is not recognizing the pivots on the sheets?
Can you help me with this?
PivotTables is a method of the worksheet object, not a property. So in C# (unlike in VBA), you should express the method call with parentheses.
[int]$count = $sheet.PivotTables.Count
should be
[int]$count = $sheet.PivotTables().Count