{"id":2927,"date":"2013-09-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/09\/05\/powertip-customize-table-headings-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-customize-table-headings-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-customize-table-headings-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Customize Table Headings with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to create a custom table heading by using Windows PowerShell.<\/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 display a table if the default property name is confusing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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;Use a hash table to customize the table properties. The elements of the hash table are&nbsp;<strong>Label<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Expression<\/strong>&nbsp;(or alias&rsquo;&nbsp;<strong>L<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>E<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In this example, I rename the&nbsp;<strong>ProcessName<\/strong>&nbsp;property to&nbsp;<strong>Name<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">get-process | Format-Table @{L=&#8217;name&#8217;;E={$_.processname}}, id<\/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 create a custom table heading by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display a table if the default property name is confusing? &nbsp;Use a hash table to customize the table properties. The elements of the hash table are&nbsp;Label&nbsp;and&nbsp;Expression&nbsp;(or alias&rsquo;&nbsp;L&nbsp;and&nbsp;E). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In this example, [&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-2927","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 create a custom table heading by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display a table if the default property name is confusing? &nbsp;Use a hash table to customize the table properties. The elements of the hash table are&nbsp;Label&nbsp;and&nbsp;Expression&nbsp;(or alias&rsquo;&nbsp;L&nbsp;and&nbsp;E). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In this example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/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=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}