Once you enter the script, click on the green arrow icon in the menu bar to Run the script or press F5. Next, type in your name next to Enter your name: field and hit Enter.

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post ...

Clicking the button passes the number 3 to a PowerShell script. Now obviously there are much easier ways to add two to a number using nothing but Excel (no PowerShell). But that isn't the point.