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Subject:Re: Editable List of Filenames from Windows? From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:43 -0800
The command line method:
Start > Run > CMD > [ENTER]
CD \\*{computer_name}*\*{filepath* <file://%7bcomputer_name%7d/%7Bfilepath>*
}*
**
DIR /S *. > *{Local_filename}*.txt
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM, DonaLuisa <donaluisa_nwr -at- comcast -dot- net>wrote:
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> I am on a PC using Windows. From My Computer I can navigate to a network
> directory, and nested in a subfolder is a list of sub-subfolders. I would
> love a quick way of putting that list of of folder names in an Office
> application, like Excel or Word.
>
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> I'm making a checklist to see if each sub-subfolder contains a certain
> something.
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> Any way to list the filenames that I view in a Windows directory?
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