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 ...

Storing data in a structured way is important when that data will be read by a computer. One of the easiest ways to put data into an easy-to-read format is with a comma-separated value (CSV) file. A ...

If you often use a computer for work, you've probably encountered some .csv files as part of your daily grind. On the surface, they may seem like a strange alternative to the far more well-known .xlsx ...

A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...

How to convert XLS and JSON files to CSV in Linux with csvkit Your email has been sent Sometimes you just need a quick means of converting a spreadsheet to a comma-separated values file. When you ...

Using PowerShell, Adam shows you one way to compare a .CSV file full of employee accounts with Active Directory users. So you've been given a .CSV file from your HR department that contains a list of ...

If you have a list of items in a text file and you want to import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, you can do that without writing them manually. An option in Excel allows users to import ...

If you use the Calendar feature in the Outlook desktop app on your Windows 11/10 PC and you want to export the Outlook Calendar in CSV, here is how it is done. Outlook comes with an in-built feature ...

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 ...