{"id":4115,"date":"2013-02-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/24\/powertip-learn-about-powershell-format-files\/"},"modified":"2013-02-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-learn-about-powershell-format-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-learn-about-powershell-format-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Learn About PowerShell Format Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:&nbsp;<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>Learn about Windows PowerShell format files.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.32679456449113786\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/3iVesT_YluFrwggTcnXkHtLM1JZiR9dKNiT_uZPz1Qj4JVoraFYAkZWwlvl43Py69h3heUq6VFOr9MYksPOdCFKd9JSINhj0VfCvS0k3lMv0TJmV7XMrt6VmgsZ9wrmyaQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"34px;\" height=\"34px;\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Where can I get good information about the various *format.ps1xml files that Windows PowerShell uses?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span><span><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.32679456449113786\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/GEQ4oDEEQ8jC8KFBDzcvcMh_E4i7zTxI76Pma69ARBsY_RjXbseN8-gNkHJCnyEkAGzSygyAbZhXv3ZAGSiipa3jOCv1qztSL3holBGJtkTz2q4DziYIadf6JMEV3drz0Q\" alt=\"\" width=\"34px;\" height=\"34px;\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>On&nbsp;Windows PowerShell 3.0, after you have updated Help<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>by running the <strong>Update-Help<\/strong> command, use Help to display the format Help content. Here is the command that I use to do this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><span><span>help format -Category helpfile<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/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:&nbsp;&nbsp;Learn about Windows PowerShell format files.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Where can I get good information about the various *format.ps1xml files that Windows PowerShell uses? &nbsp;On&nbsp;Windows PowerShell 3.0, after you have updated Help&nbsp;by running the Update-Help command, use Help to display the format Help content. Here is the command that I use to do this: help format -Category helpfile<\/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-4115","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:&nbsp;&nbsp;Learn about Windows PowerShell format files.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Where can I get good information about the various *format.ps1xml files that Windows PowerShell uses? &nbsp;On&nbsp;Windows PowerShell 3.0, after you have updated Help&nbsp;by running the Update-Help command, use Help to display the format Help content. Here is the command that I use to do this: help format -Category helpfile<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/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=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}