I need to be able to extract all the word document names in a folder (may be
700 to 1000 documents), and put the resulting names into some sort of
database. I will then want to sort the documents according to various key
words in the titles; I'll then need to save/print the sort results.

Any suggestions?

Hi Rudy

Rudymill wrote:
I need to be able to extract all the word document names in a folder (may be
700 to 1000 documents),

You can do that from any console. Under Windows, that would be
ControlPanel.exe (usually found in Start | Programs | Accessories).

There, change the current path to your desired directory and type:

dir *.doc /b filelist.txt

The result should be the file "filelist.txt", a text file with one
filename per line.


and put the resulting names into some sort of
database. I will then want to sort the documents according to various key
words in the titles; I'll then need to save/print the sort results.

I'll leave that for the newsgroup to your database application ... :-)

HTH
Robert
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Worked like a charm. And with 15 minutes on the Excel online help site, I am
now in business.

Thanks.

Rudy M

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Hi Rudy

Rudymill wrote:
I need to be able to extract all the word document names in a folder (may be
700 to 1000 documents),

You can do that from any console. Under Windows, that would be
ControlPanel.exe (usually found in Start | Programs | Accessories).

There, change the current path to your desired directory and type:

dir *.doc /b filelist.txt

The result should be the file "filelist.txt", a text file with one
filename per line.


and put the resulting names into some sort of
database. I will then want to sort the documents according to various key
words in the titles; I'll then need to save/print the sort results.

I'll leave that for the newsgroup to your database application ... :-)

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word