I've been diving into how Powershell can use Excel as a COM object, have most of it down but there are two things I'd like to be able to do that I haven't been able to find anywhere, hoping someone can help.
1/ Would like to be able to script hiding a range of columns in the generated Excel spreadsheet.
2/ Would like to be able to have Excel add a border around all cells in the script as well.
Thanks!
Hiding a column:
Here is an example that you can adapt. This is hiding the first column in the active work sheet.
$file = "C:\Users\Micky\Desktop\not locked.xlsx"
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel")|Out-Null
$excel = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass
$excel.Visible = $true
$wb = $excel.Workbooks.Open($file)
$ws = $wb.ActiveSheet
$c = $ws.Columns
$c.Item(1).hidden = $true
Cell border:
For the example I use a double border and apply to the first cell, A1.
The XlLineStyle Enum can be found here
$xlDouble = -4119
$item = $ws.Range("A1")
$item.Borders.LineStyle = $xlDouble
Related
I'm trying to find out if an excel sheet contains an array (in any cell in the fourth sheet). The variable is a user input as shown:
$j = Read-Host "Enter sensor serial number"
$Sens_name = #("$j")
And the act of it trying to find the input looks like this, where $EPRB2_loca is the location of the excel file including file extension:
#Checking in EPRB 2 file
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open("$EPRB2_loca")
$WorkSheet = $Workbook.Sheets.Item(4)
$WorkSheet.Name
$EPRB2_file = $WorkSheet.Cells.Find("$Sens_name")
if ($EPRB2_file.HasArray -eq $false)
{
$EPRB2_file = $null
}
Can someone please help me figure out why it won't show as it containing the array when I know it does?
I was using the wrong command.
If anyone comes across this, use .Count instead of .HasArray
$xl = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application -Property #{
Visible = $true
DisplayAlerts = $false
}
$wb = $xl.WorkBooks.Add()
$sh = $wb.Sheets.Item(‘Sheet1’)
$sh.Shapes.AddPicture("c:\xyz.jpg",1,0,0,0,400,200)
Using this code I am able to insert picture in excel sheet but it always puts the picture at "A1" position.
Is there any way to insert picture at selected row,column location using PowerShell?
A picture isn't in any cell. It's in a different layer on top of the cells.
You are telling it to be at 0,0 with your code. If you do this:
$sh.Shapes.AddPicture("c:\xyz.jpg",1,0,300,300,400,200)
you will insert it a 300, 300.
This should be pretty simple. I'm looking to take the information from my previous question(s), which is a CSV, and place them in an existing Excel document.
Here's the existing data (in a CSV):
SO | Status | ElapsedHrs
PMTT12345678 Hit on Debra 2.5
PMTS23456789 Get rejected 4.25
PMTT87654321 Send some faxes 1.0
So I have an existing Excel sheet, where all of the SO category needs to go to column K starting at cell 6, Status goes to L starting at 6 and ElapsedHrs goes to column O starting at cell 6.
Using this and a few others as examples, but I can't figure out the syntax. Any help is appreciated, again.
Edit
So far I have this:
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$Excel.visible = $false
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($ExportCsv)
$WorkBook2 = $excel.Workbooks.open($Template)
$Worksheet = $Workbook.WorkSheets.item(“$ExpCsvShort”)
$ExportCsv is the name of the CSV with the full path. $ExpCsvShort' is just the filename (the name changes based on the hour and date). $Template` is the template .xslx file to which the data would be written.
$range = $WorkSheet.Range(“A2”).EntireColumn
$range.Copy() | out-null
Not sure what this should be, as I want column A (minus the header) to go to K on $Template starting at 6. Then I want C to start at L6 and D to start at O6, but I don't know the syntax.
Once I have that:
$Worksheet2 = $Workbook2.Worksheets.item(“Worklog”)
$worksheet2.activate()
$range2 = $Worksheet2.Range(“K6:K6”)
$Worksheet2.Paste($range2)
$workbook2.SaveAs($WorkLogSave)
$workbook.close($false)
$Excel.Quit()
[gc]::collect()
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
But again, I don't know the syntax for the range here, either.
Edit 2
Here's what I ended up doing.
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$Excel.visible = $true
$WorkBook = $excel.Workbooks.Open($ExportCsv)
$WorkBook2 = $excel.Workbooks.open($Template)
$Worksheet = $Workbook.WorkSheets.item($ExpCsvShort)
$Worksheet.activate()
#A Range Copy
$rangeAc = $WorkSheet.Range(“A2:A26”)
$rangeAc.Copy() | out-null
#Select sheet 2
$Worksheet2 = $Workbook2.Worksheets.item(“Worklog”)
$worksheet2.activate()
#A Range Paste
$rangeAp = $Worksheet2.Range(“K6:K30”)
$Worksheet2.Paste($rangeAp)
#C Range Copy
$rangeCc = $WorkSheet.Range(“C2:C26”)
$rangeCc.Copy() | out-null
#C Range Paste
$rangeCp = $Worksheet2.Range(“O6:O30”)
$Worksheet2.Paste($rangeCp)
#D Range Copy
$rangeDc = $WorkSheet.Range(“D2:D26”)
$rangeDc.Copy() | out-null
#D Range Paste
$rangeDp = $Worksheet2.Range(“L6:L30”)
$Worksheet2.Paste($rangeDp)
$workbook2.SaveAs($WorkLogSave)
$workbook2.close($true)
$workbook.close($true)
$Excel.Quit()
[gc]::collect()
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
Probably a pretty crappy way to do it, but it works. Also, I still have EXCEL.EXE running after everything is closed. I've read about 5 ways to kill the process, but I'm worried if I do I'll mess someone up who has another document open, so maybe I can -passthru and capture the .id and kill that instead, but I'll worry about that later I guess.
Thanks for helping, all.
And I'd love to use that gravity, but I'm not sure I understand how. Thanks!
I want to add a column after a particular column number in excel sheet using Powershell.
I am able to add it at starting of sheet, but couldn't insert after a specific column.
#This will insert a column at column R
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$ExcelWorkSheet = $ExcelWordBook.Worksheets.Add()
$ExcelWorkSheet.Name = "TestThis"
#do other things
$ColumnSelect = $ExcelWorkSheet.Columns("R:R")
$ColumnSelect.Insert()
Alas, I agree, I have not found neither documentation or examples :-/ .
Nevertheless here is below how to insert a column 7th and give it a name:
(Get-ChildItem "*.xlsb")|
foreach-object {
$xl=New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$wb=$xl.workbooks.open($_)
$ws = $wb.worksheets.Item(1)
$ws.Columns.ListObject.ListColumns.Add(7)
$ws.Cells.Item(1,7) ='Comment'
$wb.Save()
$xl.Quit()
while([System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject([System.__ComObject]$xl)){'released'| Out-Null}
}
Best regards
As the title suggested, I'm not sure how to do the equivalent of selecting only a portion of a row and insert cells (shift rows down) using Powershell. It seems like all tutorials online are about inserting the entire row or entire column which is not what I want to do.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Try something like this:
$xl = New-Object -COM "Excel.Application"
$xl.Visible = $true
$wb = $xl.Workbooks.Open "C:\path\to\your.xlsx"
$ws = $wb.Sheets.Item(1)
$ws.Range("C5:E9").Insert(-4121)