{"id":73231,"date":"2015-09-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/20\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-title-of-foreground-word-document\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:10","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-title-of-foreground-word-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-title-of-foreground-word-document\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Title of Foreground Word Document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find the title of the foreground Word document.<\/span><\/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 find the title of the Word document that is currently in the foreground when&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I have several documents open?<\/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;The&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;<b>MainWindowTitle<\/b>&nbsp;property will list the title of the Word document. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This example presents the main window title and the start time of the application:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Process winword | select starttime, MainWindowTitle<\/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: Use Windows PowerShell to find the title of the foreground Word document. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the title of the Word document that is currently in the foreground when&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I have several documents open? &nbsp;The&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;MainWindowTitle&nbsp;property will list the title of the Word document. &nbsp; [&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-73231","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: Use Windows PowerShell to find the title of the foreground Word document. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the title of the Word document that is currently in the foreground when&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I have several documents open? &nbsp;The&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;MainWindowTitle&nbsp;property will list the title of the Word document. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73231","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=73231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73231\/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=73231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}