Create an Excel Spreadsheet in Powershell

This post shows you how to create an excel spreadsheet in Powershell with OfficeWriter.

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## Create an Excel Spreadsheet with ExcelApplication in Powershell ##

## by Jim Stallings (http://www.officewriter.com)

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# Add the assembly Add-Type -Path ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\SoftArtisans\OfficeWriter\bin\dotnet\SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll‘

# Create a new ExcelApplication object

$xla = New-Object “SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.ExcelApplication”

# Create a new workbook

$wb = $xla.Create()

# Add a worksheet to the workbook

$ws = $wb.Worksheets[0]

# Add some text to the first cell in the sheet

$ws.Cells[‘A1’].Value = “Welcome to SoftArtisans OfficeWriter!”

# Save the workbook to disk

$xla.Save($wb, “C:\myfile.xls“)

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