Powershell Excel Question

i All. I have a script that brings in an excel workbook and exports to CSV. Problem is, i want this to hit multiple workbooks in excel, starting from

$oWorksheet = $oExcelDoc.Worksheets.item(7)

And going to the end

How can i achive this? Code below

$sExcelFile="C:\WindowsPatching_Reference_2016.xlsx"
$sCSVFile="C:\temp\$wksname.csv"
#$SheetName = "WinA-Test_Thu"

# Get COM Object
$oExcel = New-Object -ComObject "Excel.Application"
# Should Excel be visible?
$oExcel.Visible = $true
# and open excel file
$oExcelDoc = $oExcel.Workbooks.Open($sExcelFile)

# Open Worksheet
#$oWorkSheet = $oExcelDoc.sheets.item($SheetName)
$oWorksheet = $oExcelDoc.Worksheets.item(7)
#Get Sheet Name
$Name = $oworksheet.name
# Activate, show it
$oWorksheet.Activate()

$oExcelDoc.SaveAs($sCSVFile,[Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlCSVWindows)

$oExcelDoc.Close($false)
Start-Sleep 1
# Cleanup COM
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($oWorksheet)|out-null
$oWorksheet=$null
Start-Sleep 1
# Cleanup COM
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($oExcelDoc)|out-null
$oExcelDoc=$null
# Close Excel
$oExcel.Quit()
Start-Sleep 1
# Cleanup COM
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($oExcel)|out-null
$oExcel=$null
[GC]::Collect()
[GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()

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Rainer JeschorCommented:
Hi,
if your code is currently working, then the following loop should then export all sheets until the end starting with sheet number 7:

for ($counter = 7; $counter -le $oExcelDoc.Worksheets.count; $counter++) {
$oWorksheet = $oExcelDoc.Worksheets.item(7)
#Get Sheet Name
$Name = $oworksheet.name
# Activate, show it
$oWorksheet.Activate()
$sCSVFile="C:\temp\$wksname$counter.csv"
$oExcelDoc.SaveAs($sCSVFile,[Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlCSVWindows)
}

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I just added the counter to the filename, otherwise the file would always be overwritten.

HTH
Rainer
dann47Author Commented:
Hi many thanks, where would this sit in line with the code please?
Also, the code used to get the name of the sheet and call it that name.
Also, how can i force it to overwrite the file?

Many thanks
Rainer JeschorCommented:
Hi,

the following works on my machine with a sample workbook and it overwrites the existing files:

$sExcelFile="C:\WindowsPatching_Reference_2016.xlsx"
$sCSVFile="C:\temp\$wksname.csv"
#$SheetName = "WinA-Test_Thu"

# Get COM Object
$oExcel = New-Object -ComObject "Excel.Application"
# Hide overwrite warning
$oExcel.DisplayAlerts = $false 

# Should Excel be visible?
$oExcel.Visible = $true
# and open excel file
$oExcelDoc = $oExcel.Workbooks.Open($sExcelFile)

# Open Worksheet
#$oWorkSheet = $oExcelDoc.sheets.item($SheetName)
for ($counter = 7; $counter -le $oExcelDoc.Worksheets.count; $counter++) {
    $oWorksheet = $oExcelDoc.Worksheets.item($counter)
    #Get Sheet Name
    $wksname = $oworksheet.name
    # Activate, show it
    $oWorksheet.Activate()
    $sCSVFile="C:\temp\$wksname.csv"
    $oWorksheet.SaveAs($sCSVFile,[Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlCSVWindows)
}
$oExcelDoc.Close($false)
Start-Sleep 1
# Cleanup COM
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($oWorksheet)|out-null
$oWorksheet=$null
Start-Sleep 1
# Cleanup COM
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($oExcelDoc)|out-null
$oExcelDoc=$null
# Close Excel
$oExcel.Quit()
Start-Sleep 1
# Cleanup COM
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($oExcel)|out-null
$oExcel=$null
[GC]::Collect()
[GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()

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HTH
Rainer

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dann47Author Commented:
Fantastic, many thanks
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