Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote the article and Brien Posey expanded it. The PowerShell parameter is a fundamental component of most PowerShell scripts. Parameters make it possible to ...

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In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

I'm writing a script to that will invoke the GIMP batch processor. I've written the GIMP Script-Fu scripts. I've written the PowerShell wrapper. However, I can't get PowerShell to properly pass the ...