Most of the times I use the CSV files whenever I need to import or export SQL Server data. And then if I need to do further analysis on the data or simply beautify the results to share with the users or colleagues, I simply open the CSV file in Excel and do the rest of the work manually. But what if I could just skip the CSV and export data directly to Excel format? Wouldn't that save me time and efforts and also help me to automate if I wanted to? No surprise that there is indeed a powershell module for Excel at the Powershell Gallary site. https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ImportExcel/5.2.0 You can import the module directly from there or do the manual download. I decided to use the import method. For that I would need to have the PSGallary as one of the registered repositories in the PowerShell If you don't already have registered the Powershell Gallary as one of the repository, there are couple methods depending on the PowerShell version you have. I have the 5.x ve...