Finding Powershell names for Excel features

Question

I want to automate the Excel process of Data → Import Text File → text import wizard

How do I find the PowerShell name for these menus?

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Answer 1

If I understood your question, you are looking at a way to import a CSV file directly into Excel.

I use the Open() method of the $excel.workbooks object.

$excel = new-object -comobject excel.application
$file = get-item "d:\scripts\test.csv"
$excel.Visible=$true
$excel.displayalerts = $False
$wb = $excel.workbooks.open($file)

If that doesn't work, I use files I rename the .CSV file to .TXT, and open them with OpenText

UPDATED to use '|' as delimiter

$wb = $excel.Workbooks.OpenText(
         "mycsv.txt", # file to open
         [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPlatform]::xlWindows, 
         1, # start from row 1
         [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlTextParsingType]::xlDelimited,
         [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlTextQualifier]::xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote,
         $false, # Consecutive Delimiter
         $false, # tab
         $false, # semicolon
         $false, # comma
         $false, # space
         $true,  # use other
         '|')

Don't use OpenText with .CSV files directly, rename them first. Excel seems to work with CSV named files differently.