Convert VBA Macros To PowerShell for Microsoft Office Automation
There is a lot of documentation out there for interacting with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word, etc with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). A lot of time you may only be able to find VBA examples. VBA’s require template files to be sent to the desktop and are a real hassle when trying to automate across multiple machines.
There are not many A to B examples of translating VBA to PowerShell so I took a problem I had solved in the past and presented the before and after. Hopefully it will provide enough information to allow others to convert VBA code into PowerShell for their scenarios.
You can check out the full article on PowerShellBlogger.com.
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