To create one, you convert Excel to CSV (comma delimited) format, so you start by populating your spreadsheet in the way you ordinarily would.

CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values, and it's a pretty barebones, plain-text file format that stores tabular data.

The process is similar to creating any plain text file in PowerShell -- but with a few twists.

You can insert or generate the data for the CSV file in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and then save the file in CSV format. CSV files outputted by Excel 2007 can be used in any program that can read ...