http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspxDon Jones has graciously offered to share a slide he uses as part of his Windows PowerShell Fundamentals course ( http://www.scriptingtraining.com/ ) which shows the interaction between the pipeline, the out-* and format-* cmdlets. The attached slideen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4632772Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:22:25 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4632772Steve<p>I can only assume that .pptx is a Office 2007 extension?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4645416Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:17:28 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4645416Mark<p>Yep. &nbsp;You can get read it with PowerPoint 2003, if you download the &quot;Compatibility Pack&quot; at <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&amp;displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&amp;displaylang=en</a></p> <p>it worked like a charm for me.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4648137Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:53:36 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4648137Don Jones [MVP]<p>Yup. There's an Office 2007 compatibility pack (downloadable from Microsoft's site) which lets you open 2007 files in older versions of Office.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4648749Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:04:28 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4648749Chester<p>The link to the website is missing the leading &quot;s&quot;.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4659268Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:11:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4659268lb<p>so if i download and install a 25 meg file then i'll get to see this slide... that's a pretty hefty tax... i'm gonna try it, but if the browser requires a reboot or something else goes wrong.... i may swear off powershell for a good five minutes. </p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4659384Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:18:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4659384lb<p>okay... the office 2007 compatability pack indeed worked! it did require me to turn off outlook, but no browser restart needed (or anything else). powerpoint took quite some time to load -- but i think it was worth it in the end. </p> <p>the animation was worth several dozen words, i think. ;-)</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4659819Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:49:07 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4659819PowerShellTeam<p>I fixed the link. &nbsp;Thanks!</p> <p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]</p> <p>Windows Management Partner Architect</p> <p>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: &nbsp; &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell">http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell</a></p> <p>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4669205Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:03:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4669205marco.shaw<p>Links still looks broken to me, even after a refresh.</p> <p>I could save it as a .ppt somewhere public, but since I don't own the content, I won't.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4669603Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:36:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4669603Joel "Jaykul" Bennett<p>Actually, that link to &quot;criptingcenter&quot; is still a bit cryptic ;)</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4670372Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:42:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4670372Oisin Grehan<p>link still broken?</p> <p>www.criptingtraing.com</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#4761109Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:30:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4761109emwede<p>one should probably mention that this pptx is worth more than thousand words as soon as you've recognized that you should view it in presentation mode with all the animation going on - before it was just worth a thousand ? when I looked at it.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/08/29/out-format.aspx#5300747Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:18:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5300747savy<p>Hi,</p> <p>I just discovered powershell ! </p> <p>But when i try to create a simple test file via this command for example :</p> <p>PS&gt; &quot;hello world!&quot; | out-file c:\test.txt</p> <p>It returns me an error ! </p> <p>Is there a configuration that i missed ?!</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p> savy.</p>