{"id":1348,"date":"2014-05-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/05\/15\/powertip-view-powershell-formatting-data\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-view-powershell-formatting-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-view-powershell-formatting-data\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: View PowerShell Formatting Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to view the formatting data for a Windows PowerShell type.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to view the formatting data for a particular type?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Examine the output from&nbsp;<b>Get-Member<\/b>&nbsp;to find the type you are interested in, then use <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the&nbsp;<b>Get-FormatData&nbsp;<\/b>cmdlet. Store the returned object in a variable and explore it <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the way you do any other Windows PowerShell object.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$f=Get-FormatData -TypeName ModuleInfoGrouping<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$f.FormatViewDefinition.control<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$f.FormatViewDefinition.Control.headers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to view the formatting data for a Windows PowerShell type. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to view the formatting data for a particular type? &nbsp;Examine the output from&nbsp;Get-Member&nbsp;to find the type you are interested in, then use &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the&nbsp;Get-FormatData&nbsp;cmdlet. Store the returned object in a variable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to view the formatting data for a Windows PowerShell type. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to view the formatting data for a particular type? &nbsp;Examine the output from&nbsp;Get-Member&nbsp;to find the type you are interested in, then use &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the&nbsp;Get-FormatData&nbsp;cmdlet. Store the returned object in a variable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}