Anyone know how to move file names to an excell file with windows 98.
I’ve just been doing a slow double click, then copy, then move to excell file, then to cell, then paste, and then over and over and over again.
Is there a better way?
You can easily dump file names to a text file, which you can then open in Excel.
Click Start, click Run, and type Command, and click OK. This will give you a command window. Navigate to the directory where you files live using the “CD” command. For example, to change to a directory called “MyFiles”, type:
CD\MyFiles
and hit return.
Once you’re where you need to be, copy the file names to a file with the following command:
dir . >> filenames.txt
That will create a text file called “filenames.txt” that includes all the files in the directory. You can then open that file in Excel and voila, file names!
Sorry I didn’t respond right away!
Your guidance in this matter was very useful.
Thank you.
Sometimes I find this Browser trick useful for copying file information:
[file:///](file:///)
There’s a menu extension called DMEX that will do what you want using the clipboard.
© 2000 but still quite usable in XP. And free.