amin wrote:
I have a number of word documents in a folder, each has a name, say
joe, jim, sam..Now I want to take the name of each word document and
make a word document with a list of these files. How do I do that?

Use the macro at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InsertFileNames.htm. If
you need to know how to install the macro, see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org