PowerShell Deep Dive: IV Formatting script
During Jeff Hicks’ talk about formatting he did the usual demo of taking an extract of a format file and modify it to create a new default format.
Jim Truher mentioned that he had a script that would generate the XML for a format file and that he would post it. He has and its here
http://jtruher3.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/a-tool-for-table-formatting/
If you want to modify the way things are displayed or create you own standard formats this will make life much easier.