This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Format-Custom', in PowerShell version 2 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Uses a customized view to format the output.
Format-Custom [[-Property] <Object[]>] [-Depth <int>] [-DisplayError] [-Expand <string>] [-Force] [-GroupBy <Object>] [-InputObject <psobject>] [
-ShowError] [-View <string>] [<CommonParameters>]
The Format-Custom cmdlet formats the output of a command as defined in an alternate view. Format-Custom is designed to display views that are not
just tables or just lists. You can use the views defined in the *format.PS1XML files in the Windows PowerShell directory, or you can create your
own views in new PS1XML files and use the Update-FormatData cmdlet to add them to Windows PowerShell.
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C:\PS>get-command start-transcript | format-custom -view MyView
Description
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This command formats information about the Start-Transcript cmdlet in the format defined by the MyView view, a custom view created by the user. T
o run this command successfully, you must first create a new PS1XML file, define the MyView view, and then use the Update-FormatData command to a
dd the PS1XML file to Windows PowerShell.
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C:\PS>get-process Winlogon | format-custom
Description
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This command formats information about the Winlogon process in an alternate customized view. Because the command does not use the View parameter,
Format-Custom uses a default custom view to format the data.