{"id":7901,"date":"2015-02-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/11\/powertip-automatically-find-options-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:40","slug":"powertip-automatically-find-options-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-automatically-find-options-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Automatically Find Options in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to see available options in the Windows PowerShell ISE.<\/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 easily see what options are available when I type in a cmdlet name in the Windows PowerShell ISE?<\/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 IntelliSense. There are two ways to display IntelliSense:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">1. From the&nbsp;<b>Edit<\/b>&nbsp;menu, select&nbsp;<b>Start Intellisense<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">2. Use the&nbsp;<b>Ctrl-Space<\/b>&nbsp;keyboard shortcut as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">\n<ul>\n<li>In the Script pane of the Windows PowerShell ISE (the upper white box) type&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Type a space after the final &ldquo;s&rdquo; in&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>From the&nbsp;<b>Edit<\/b>&nbsp;menu, select&nbsp;<b>Start IntelliSense<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the process name from the drop-down list that appears.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 see available options in the Windows PowerShell ISE. &nbsp;How can I easily see what options are available when I type in a cmdlet name in the Windows PowerShell ISE? &nbsp;Use IntelliSense. There are two ways to display IntelliSense: 1. From the&nbsp;Edit&nbsp;menu, select&nbsp;Start Intellisense. 2. Use the&nbsp;Ctrl-Space&nbsp;keyboard shortcut as follows: In the [&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":[51,356,3,45,100],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell","tag-windows-powershell-ise"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to see available options in the Windows PowerShell ISE. &nbsp;How can I easily see what options are available when I type in a cmdlet name in the Windows PowerShell ISE? &nbsp;Use IntelliSense. There are two ways to display IntelliSense: 1. From the&nbsp;Edit&nbsp;menu, select&nbsp;Start Intellisense. 2. Use the&nbsp;Ctrl-Space&nbsp;keyboard shortcut as follows: In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","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=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/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=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}