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How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 1

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...

Reopening CSVs in Excel without breaking them: 6 Windows steps

When I opened the CSV, "00123" became "123". Japanese characters are unreadable. The end of the management number became 0.
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Import CSV Cleanup into PowerShell

I love using Import-CSV because anything you import will be converted into an object. The source of your CSV file can come from anywhere. It does not have to be created in PowerShell. This is ...
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Find Data in Excel Using PowerShell

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...
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How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 2

In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for zooming in on just the specific data you need and filtering out the rest. In ...