{"id":680,"date":"2014-09-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/09\/14\/powertip-use-windows-powershell-to-open-word-document\/"},"modified":"2014-09-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-windows-powershell-to-open-word-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-windows-powershell-to-open-word-document\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use Windows PowerShell to Open Word Document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to open a Microsoft Word document.<\/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 open a Word document with Windows PowerShell?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<b>New-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$Filename=&#039;C:\\HappyBirthdayEd.docx&#039;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$Word=NEW-Object &ndash;comobject Word.Application<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$Document=$Word.documents.open($Filename)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">You can now programmatically access methods and properties to edit the Word document.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to open a Microsoft Word document. &nbsp;How can I open a Word document with Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-Object&nbsp;cmdlet: $Filename=&#039;C:\\HappyBirthdayEd.docx&#039; $Word=NEW-Object &ndash;comobject Word.Application $Document=$Word.documents.open($Filename) You can now programmatically access methods and properties to edit the Word document.<\/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":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to open a Microsoft Word document. &nbsp;How can I open a Word document with Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-Object&nbsp;cmdlet: $Filename=&#039;C:\\HappyBirthdayEd.docx&#039; $Word=NEW-Object &ndash;comobject Word.Application $Document=$Word.documents.open($Filename) You can now programmatically access methods and properties to edit the Word document.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/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=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}