How to learn better formatting

My personal experience is that it grows over time, it's a matter of experience. There are a few things that I always try to do to make things more readable:
- Don't use short names or aliases like select (select-object) or gci (Get-childitem. Always use the real name
- Use # (Comments) to explain (Shortly) what that specific section does
- Use Visual Studio code and the Right-Click / Format Document option so that it aligns everything nicely making it more readable
- When using Visual Studio Code, store your scripts in Github in a private repository. Versioning/roll-back etc can help a lot!
- Don't use commands which are longer then your screen, use splatting (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_splatting?view=powershell-7.2) for passing the parameters
- If you have to use .exe's in your scripts, use 7zip.exe instead of 7zip for example to show that you're calling a executable instead of a cmdlet
- Use error handling, try/catch of if/else
- Use parallel in foreach statements if possible to speed up long running scripts
- Make sure that you're script runs in 5.1 and 7.x, if only in 7.x make sure you specify that https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_requires?view=powershell-7.2
- Keep your modules up-to-date using update-module
- Keep your help up-to-date using update-help
- Be consistant in how you decclare variables and what names you use
- Don't copy/paste examples and just run them but determine for yourself what is happening and use it in your own scripts

My 2 cents 😄