[Forum FAQ] How to find and replace text strings in the shapes in Excel using Windows PowerShell

Question

Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
$text = “text1”,”text2”,”text3”,”text3”
$Excel 
= New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
$Workbook 
= $Excel.workbooks.open("d:\shape.xlsx")      
#Open the excel file
$Worksheet 
= $Workbook.Worksheets.Item("shapes")       
#Open the worksheet named "shapes"
$shape = $Worksheet.Shapes      
# Get all the shapes
$i=0      
# This number is used to replace the text in sequence as the variable “$text”
Foreach ($sh in $shape){
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text  
# Get the textbox in the shape
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text = 
$text[$i++]       
#Change the value of the textbox in the shape one by one
$WorkBook.Save()              
#Save workbook in excel
$WorkBook.Close()             
#Close workbook in excel
[void]$excel.quit()           
#Quit Excel
Before invoking the methods and properties, we can use the cmdlet “Get-Member” to list the available methods.
Besides, we can also find the documents about these methods and properties in MSDN:
Workbook.Worksheets Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835542(v=office.15).aspx
Worksheet.Shapes Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff821817(v=office.15).aspx
Shape.TextFrame Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839162(v=office.15).aspx
TextFrame.Characters Method (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838596(v=office.15).aspx
After running the script above, we can see the changes in the figure below:
Figure 2.
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Answer 1

Thank you for the information, but does this thread really need to be stuck to the top of the forum?
If there must be a sticky, I'd rather see a link to a page on the wiki that has links to all of these ForumFAQ posts.
EDIT: I see this is no longer stuck to the top of the forum, thank you.
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