Cmdlets that control formatting
The rules in the previous section covered all the output where we haven't specifically told PowerShell how to format. What is nice here is that the default formats for many of the types that are commonly encountered in PowerShell do a good job of displaying the most often used properties, and the rules to format other objects are also, generally, very appropriate. But in some circumstances, we want to have more control over the output, and it's no surprise that PowerShell provides cmdlets for this purpose.
Format-Table and Format-List
The two most commonly used formatting cmdlets are Format-Table and Format-List. As their names suggest, they force the formatting system to use either a table or a list format for the ...
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