PSWriteOffice vs PSWriteWord

PSWriteOffice

Experimental PowerShell Module to create and edit Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents without having Microsoft Office installed. (by EvotecIT)

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PSWriteWord

PSWriteWord is powershell module to create Microsoft Word documents without Microsoft Word installed... (by EvotecIT)

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PSWriteOffice		PSWriteWord
	Project
7	Mentions	2
81	Stars	212
-	Growth	-
5.7	Activity	5.5
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
PowerShell	Language	PowerShell
-	License	MIT License

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PSWriteOffice

Posts with mentions or reviews of PSWriteOffice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.

Get pagesetup header from a word document
4 projects | /r/PowerShell | 20 Jun 2023

I also own: - https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteOffice
How do you read word document files using powershell?
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 15 Jan 2023
If Powershell commands can be ran from C# should I favor writing scripts in C# since I’m more comfortable with C#?
3 projects | /r/PowerShell | 13 Jan 2023

For example: - https://github.com/EvotecIT/ImagePlayground - C# lib that takes care of those hard things in c#, and then PowerShell that just interacts with that lib in PowerShell - https://github.com/EvotecIT/OfficeIMO - C# lib that manage Word, and then https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteOffice which takes that c# library and wraps around it to make it easy for day to day users, and for me to do some PowerShell magic with it without having to do some things I don't want in C#.
Extract all text from Microsoft Word document?
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 2 Nov 2022

https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteOffice based on - https://github.com/EvotecIT/OfficeIMO (C#)
Combining binary cmdlets with C#/.NET library/DLL
5 projects | /r/PowerShell | 8 Sep 2022

I wrote https://github.com/EvotecIT/OfficeIMO which is C# Library, which I then use in PowerShell module https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteOffice along with other DLL libraries and expose those using verb-noun (in PowerShell).
$xyz.replace() messes up encoding
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 22 Aug 2022

You should try and do this properly. Here's a way to do this with proper reading Word and replacing text: - https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteOffice/issues/1
Using PS to interact with Office, specifically Word. Is it possible? Is it worth it? Can I automate it? Is there a better alternative?
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 16 Jun 2022

We do -> https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteOffice :-)

PSWriteWord

Posts with mentions or reviews of PSWriteWord. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-15.

How do you read word document files using powershell?
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 15 Jan 2023

There are libraries out there that can work with the Office OpenXML (docx) formats without needing an install of Office, such as: https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteWord
$xyz.replace() messes up encoding
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 22 Aug 2022

Or my older version: https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteWord

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OfficeIMO - Fast and easy to use cross-platform .NET library that creates or modifies Microsoft Word (DocX) and later also Excel (XLSX) files without installing any software. Library is based on Open XML SDK

MicrosoftTeams-msinternal - This project was created from PowerShell which allows people to download the latest internal build of Microsoft Teams.

ImagePlayground - ImagePlayground is a PowerShell module that provides a set of functions for image processing. Among other things it can create QRCodes, BarCodes, Charts, and do image processing that can help with daily tasks.

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