Powershell mail merge
PowerShell provides several ways to perform mail merge operations. Here are a few examples:
Using the Microsoft.Office.Interop
namespace
You can use the Microsoft.Office.Interop
namespace to interact with Microsoft Office applications, including Word. Here's an example of how you can use it to perform a mail merge:
# Add the Microsoft.Office.Interop namespace
Add-Type -AssemblyName Microsoft.Office.Interop
# Create a new Word application object
$word = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application
# Open the template document
$template = $word.Documents.Open("C:\Path\To\Template.docx")
# Set the data source
$dataSource = @(
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = "John Doe"
Email = "[email protected]"
}
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = "Jane Doe"
Email = "[email protected]"
}
)
# Perform the mail merge
$template.MailMerge.OpenDataSource("C:\Path\To\Data.csv", 1)
$template.MailMerge.Destination = 1
$template.MailMerge.Execute()
# Save the merged document
$template.SaveAs("C:\Path\To\MergedDocument.docx")
# Close the Word application
$word.Quit()
Using the Word.Application
object
You can also use the Word.Application
object to perform a mail merge. Here's an example:
# Create a new Word application object
$word = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application
# Open the template document
$template = $word.Documents.Open("C:\Path\To\Template.docx")
# Set the data source
$dataSource = @(
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = "John Doe"
Email = "[email protected]"
}
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = "Jane Doe"
Email = "[email protected]"
}
)
# Perform the mail merge
$template.MailMerge.OpenDataSource($dataSource, 1)
$template.MailMerge.Destination = 1
$template.MailMerge.Execute()
# Save the merged document
$template.SaveAs("C:\Path\To\MergedDocument.docx")
# Close the Word application
$word.Quit()
Using a third-party library
There are also third-party libraries available that provide mail merge functionality in PowerShell. One example is the MailMerge
module, which can be installed using the following command:
Install-Module -Name MailMerge
Here's an example of how you can use the MailMerge
module to perform a mail merge:
# Import the MailMerge module
Import-Module -Name MailMerge
# Set the data source
$dataSource = @(
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = "John Doe"
Email = "[email protected]"
}
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = "Jane Doe"
Email = "[email protected]"
}
)
# Set the template document
$template = "C:\Path\To\Template.docx"
# Perform the mail merge
MailMerge -Template $template -DataSource $dataSource -OutputPath "C:\Path\To\MergedDocument.docx"
Note that the MailMerge
module requires Microsoft Office to be installed on the system.