{"id":7761,"date":"2015-02-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/18\/powertip-use-powershell-ise-for-standard-enumerations\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:34","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-ise-for-standard-enumerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-ise-for-standard-enumerations\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell ISE for Standard Enumerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use the Windows PowerShell ISE to use enumeration values.<\/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 the Windows PowerShell ISE to use the standard enumeration types to write a <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Word automation script?<\/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;Cast the string as a&nbsp;<b>type<\/b>, and store the returned value in a variable. Each enumeration value <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;will be available as a static property. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">$HeaderFooterIndex = &quot;microsoft.office.interop.word.WdHeaderFooterIndex&quot; -as [type]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">$HeaderFooterIndex::wdHeaderFooterFirstPage<\/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 the Windows PowerShell ISE to use enumeration values. &nbsp;How can I use the Windows PowerShell ISE to use the standard enumeration types to write a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Word automation script? &nbsp;Cast the string as a&nbsp;type, and store the returned value in a variable. Each enumeration value &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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-7761","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 the Windows PowerShell ISE to use enumeration values. &nbsp;How can I use the Windows PowerShell ISE to use the standard enumeration types to write a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Word automation script? &nbsp;Cast the string as a&nbsp;type, and store the returned value in a variable. Each enumeration value &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","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=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/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=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}