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.
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 objects, irrespective of the number of properties or the type-related formatting files that might be present. Each of the cmdlets has a –Property parameter that takes a list of properties to be included. A couple of quick examples should make the...