{"id":6341,"date":"2015-04-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/30\/powertip-better-way-to-view-powershell-help\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:42","slug":"powertip-better-way-to-view-powershell-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-better-way-to-view-powershell-help\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Better Way to View PowerShell Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn a better way to view Windows PowerShell Help.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;I like the Windows PowerShell Help files, but I do not like trying to read them in the Windows PowerShell <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; console window. What is a better way to read the content?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;ShowWindow<\/b>&nbsp;parameter from&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>. This example displays the About_Automatic_Variables Help:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Help -Category helpfile automatic -ShowWindow<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn a better way to view Windows PowerShell Help. &nbsp;I like the Windows PowerShell Help files, but I do not like trying to read them in the Windows PowerShell &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; console window. What is a better way to read the content? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;&ndash;ShowWindow&nbsp;parameter from&nbsp;Get-Help. This example displays the About_Automatic_Variables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,463,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-help","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn a better way to view Windows PowerShell Help. &nbsp;I like the Windows PowerShell Help files, but I do not like trying to read them in the Windows PowerShell &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; console window. What is a better way to read the content? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;&ndash;ShowWindow&nbsp;parameter from&nbsp;Get-Help. This example displays the About_Automatic_Variables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}