Read Excel sheet in Powershell

Question

The below script reads the sheet names of an Excel document....

How could I improve it so it could extract all the contents of column B (starting from row 5 - so row

Answer 1

Sorry I know this is an old one but still felt like helping out ^_^

Maybe it's the way I read this but assuming the excel sheet 1 is called "London" and has this information; B5="Marleybone" B6="Paddington" B7="Victoria" B8="Hammersmith". And the excel sheet 2 is called "Nottingham" and has this information; C5="Alverton" C6="Annesley" C7="Arnold" C8="Askham". Then I think this code below would work. ^_^

$xlCellTypeLastCell = 11 
$startRow = 5

$excel = new-object -com excel.application
$wb = $excel.workbooks.open("C:\users\administrator\my_test.xls")

for ($i = 1; $i -le $wb.sheets.count; $i++)
    {
        $sh = $wb.Sheets.Item($i)
        $endRow = $sh.UsedRange.SpecialCells($xlCellTypeLastCell).Row
        $col = $col + $i - 1
        $city = $wb.Sheets.Item($i).name
        $rangeAddress = $sh.Cells.Item($startRow, $col).Address() + ":" + $sh.Cells.Item($endRow, $col).Address()
        $sh.Range($rangeAddress).Value2 | foreach{
            New-Object PSObject -Property @{City = $city; Area=$_}
        }
    }

$excel.Workbooks.Close()

This should be the output (without the commas):

City, Area
---- ----
London, Marleybone
London, Paddington
London, Victoria
London, Hammersmith
Nottingham, Alverton
Nottingham, Annesley
Nottingham, Arnold
Nottingham, Askham