Read Excel sheet in Powershell - excel

Question

The below script reads the sheet names of an Excel document....
How could I improve it so it could extract all the contents of column B (starting from row 5 - so row 1-4 are ignored) in each worksheet and create an object?
E.g. if column B in worksheet 1 (called London) has the following values:
Marleybone
Paddington
Victoria
Hammersmith
and column C in worksheet 2 (called) Nottingham has the following values:
Alverton
Annesley
Arnold
Askham
I'd want to create a object that from that looks like this:
City,Area
London,Marleybone
London,Paddington
London,Victoria
London,Hammersmith
Nottingham,Alverton
Nottingham,Annesley
Nottingham,Arnold
Nottingham,Askham
This is my code so far:
clear all
sheetname = #()
$excel=new-object -com excel.application
$wb=$excel.workbooks.open("c:\users\administrator\my_test.xls")
for ($i=1; $i -le $wb.sheets.count; $i++)
{
$sheetname+=$wb.Sheets.Item($i).Name;
}
$sheetname

Answer 1

This assumes that the content is in column B on each sheet (since it's not clear how you determine the column on each sheet.) and the last row of that column is also the last row of the sheet.
$xlCellTypeLastCell = 11
$startRow = 5
$col = 2
$excel = New-Object -Com Excel.Application
$wb = $excel.Workbooks.Open("C:\Users\Administrator\my_test.xls")
for ($i = 1; $i -le $wb.Sheets.Count; $i++)
{
$sh = $wb.Sheets.Item($i)
$endRow = $sh.UsedRange.SpecialCells($xlCellTypeLastCell).Row
$city = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow, $col).Value2
$rangeAddress = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow + 1, $col).Address() + ":" + $sh.Cells.Item($endRow, $col).Address()
$sh.Range($rangeAddress).Value2 | foreach
{
New-Object PSObject -Property #{ City = $city; Area = $_ }
}
}
$excel.Workbooks.Close()

Answer 2

Sorry I know this is an old one but still felt like helping out ^_^
Maybe it's the way I read this but assuming the excel sheet 1 is called "London" and has this information; B5="Marleybone" B6="Paddington" B7="Victoria" B8="Hammersmith". And the excel sheet 2 is called "Nottingham" and has this information; C5="Alverton" C6="Annesley" C7="Arnold" C8="Askham". Then I think this code below would work. ^_^
$xlCellTypeLastCell = 11
$startRow = 5
$excel = new-object -com excel.application
$wb = $excel.workbooks.open("C:\users\administrator\my_test.xls")
for ($i = 1; $i -le $wb.sheets.count; $i++)
{
$sh = $wb.Sheets.Item($i)
$endRow = $sh.UsedRange.SpecialCells($xlCellTypeLastCell).Row
$col = $col + $i - 1
$city = $wb.Sheets.Item($i).name
$rangeAddress = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow, $col).Address() + ":" + $sh.Cells.Item($endRow, $col).Address()
$sh.Range($rangeAddress).Value2 | foreach{
New-Object PSObject -Property #{City = $city; Area=$_}
}
}
$excel.Workbooks.Close()
This should be the output (without the commas):
City, Area
---- ----
London, Marleybone
London, Paddington
London, Victoria
London, Hammersmith
Nottingham, Alverton
Nottingham, Annesley
Nottingham, Arnold
Nottingham, Askham

Answer 3

This was extremely helpful for me when trying to automate Cisco SIP phone configuration using an Excel spreadsheet as the source. My only issue was when I tried to make an array and populate it using $array | Add-Member ... as I needed to use it later on to generate the config file. Just defining an array and making it the for loop allowed it to store correctly.
$lastCell = 11
$startRow, $model, $mac, $nOF, $ext = 1, 1, 5, 6, 7
$excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$wb = $excel.workbooks.open("H:\Strike Network\Phones\phones.xlsx")
$sh = $wb.Sheets.Item(1)
$endRow = $sh.UsedRange.SpecialCells($lastCell).Row
$phoneData = for ($i=1; $i -le $endRow; $i++)
{
$pModel = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow,$model).Value2
$pMAC = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow,$mac).Value2
$nameOnPhone = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow,$nOF).Value2
$extension = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow,$ext).Value2
New-Object PSObject -Property #{ Model = $pModel; MAC = $pMAC; NameOnPhone = $nameOnPhone; Extension = $extension }
$startRow++
}
I used to have no issues adding information to an array with Add-Member but that was back in PSv2/3, and I've been away from it a while. Though the simple solution saved me manually configuring 100+ phones and extensions - which nobody wants to do.

Answer 4

There is the possibility of making something really more cool!
# Powershell
$xl = new-object -ComObject excell.application
$doc=$xl.workbooks.open("Filepath")
$doc.Sheets.item(1).rows |
% { ($_.value2 | Select-Object -first 3 | Select-Object -last 2) -join "," }

Answer 5

You can use ImportExcel
which uses OfficeOpenXml