We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

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.

Tom Fenton details step-by-step directions to configure Windows 10 to allow running Task Scheduler and how to set up an automated task to run a PowerShell script every four hours. Recently I had a ...

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

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In this post, we will show you how to get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for free on a Windows 11/10 PC. All these applications are part of the Microsoft 365 (Formerly Office 365) or Office 2024 ...

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Plays are written to be performed. A script is a written version of the play. Watch this clip to understand the basic structure of a play script. Narrator: Some stories are written for people to ...