I am only using XP, so can't guarantee this procedure to work under later
versions. Yet, give it a try, and see if it does.
Go to your RUN box, by hitting the Win-R combination.
Type in the following line, and hit ENTER. This presumes your files are in the
directory of "MyFolder", if not, replace the term with your full pathname:
DIR MyFolder\*.* >MyFileList.Txt
All your filenames will be copied into a text file, named MyFileList.txt. If
you want, you could just attach the file to your Email. Or, you could open -
and edit -it in your favorite text editor.
The above line, will give you all the date/time stamps of your filelist. To
avoid this, you could do something like:
DIR MyFolder /W >MyFileList.txt
Now, only your filenames will be copied.
And, just to make sure, you can always change the name of the file, for which
you want to store your list. If you, for instance, want it to be saved in a
particular folder, and have another name, you could do something like:
DIR MyFolder\*.txt /W >C:\MyTextFiles.txt
or
DIR MyFolder\*.Doc /W >C:\Lists\WordFile.Txt
Hope you get the idea, here.
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:55 PM
Subject: How to Copy Just Filenames in Windows Vista
I'm using Vista Home Premium and WE 7.2.
I want to be able to copy just filenames, not the actual files, to the
clipboard for pasting into an e-mail or for pasting into a text file. I haven't
needed this function before and did a Google search to find out what the
keyboard command is to do that. From the searches I did, it seems that I need
to download additional software to get this capability. Is this correct? If so,
does anyone know what I should get that would be accessible, preferably not too
expensive? It seems hard to believe that this isn't built into Windows. Maybe I
just didn't search properly. Anyone got any advice?
Thanks much.
Evan
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