This might be a bit niche, but I needed to collect RGB values in an Excel spreadsheet and I though it would be neat to preview the colour in another cell. To cut a long story short, the only way I could make this happen was with a bit of Visual Basic for Applications. It’sContinue reading “Change an Excel Cell’s Colour Based on Data”
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Extract an Excel Column to a Text File with PowerShell
Having opened up the same Excel spreadsheet to copy out a list of domain names into a text file for my test automation tools to consume for the third time, I wrote a PowerShell script to do it for me. Yes, it’s the same spreadsheet I mentioned before, it is full of interesting data andContinue reading “Extract an Excel Column to a Text File with PowerShell”
Copy Excel to CSV with PowerShell
Having opened up the same Excel spreadsheet to save the data as a CSV for the third time, I wrote a PowerShell script to do it for me. Simply set the source and destination files and the script takes care of the rest. & { $sourceFile = “C:\Temp\data.xlsx” $outFile = “C:\Temp\data.csv” $excelApplication = New-Object -ComObjectContinue reading “Copy Excel to CSV with PowerShell”