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    Question Please help, unable to select any symbol in Excel or Word symbol pop up window using mouse pointer.

    Greetings: When inserting a symbol into Excel or Word, a symbol Window pops up but I am unable to select or double click on any symbol to insert. I can only use the directional key to navigate to the desired symbol and click insert. I repair, re-install MSoffice 365, installed an older...
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    Completely forget about famous DOS command and have a chance to learn new things. So simple but so effective without needing any programming skills like me. It works like a charm / magic and most importantly shaves about 2/3 of my time with almost 0 typo. Once again, can't ever thank you...
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    No, my bad, I wasn't aware that I have to create a cue file so I just ignore it. Anyway, the revised formula works wonderfully and thanks for your feedback.
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    Never mind. The new formula works perfectly. I owe you one. Beers / Coffee / Jack Daniel.... let me know?:laughing:
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    I think the culprit is that the folder is read only. I remove it from the folder property; however once I hit apply and ok. Reopened the folder property and it went back to read only again. I google and find below instructions; however, as you can see from the screen shot, there is no...
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    Thank you for the detail instruction. I follow steps by steps and it doesn't seem to work. I also try to include the extensions and still no go. Not sure what I am missing. By the way, my OS is Windows 10 Pro v21H2 build 19044.2251
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    Thank you for your quick response and Google sheet concatenate lesson. The complicated part is how to bulk rename or convert them in Windows Explorer. I wonder if there is a way to get the data from Excel / Google Sheet and rename the files in Windows Explorer (track01.wav...track10.wav)...
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    Thank you so much for your offer to help. As requested here is the link to the file name conversion project. FYI: - I try Concatenate multiple cells in Google sheet to no avail. So I cheated by creating them in Excel and copy their values to Google sheet. - Example provided is for 9 tracks...
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    Question Is there a way to rename cds track filename in bulk from an Excel list or any other semi-automation / automation process?

    Greetings: I have about 43,000 audio files in trackxx.wav format. I have to manually replace trackxx filenames with their corresponding long song name and the artist (ex: track01.wav = 01. ABCD... - EFGH... .WAV, track02.wav = 02. IJKL... - MNOP... .WAV and so forth). It takes me forever to...
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    Question Is it possible to compare Windows resource monitor status before and after a program is running?

    Hahaha, thanks for the reminder of snipping which will definitely do. For some reason, I thought there may be a more complicated way and completely ignore the simplest is always the best.
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    Question Is it possible to compare Windows resource monitor status before and after a program is running?

    Greetings: I would like to compare resource monitor before and after a program is running to pin point which *.exe / *.dll files are accessing the internet . Is this possible? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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    Use two monitors, wireless keyboard and mouse with one desktop and one laptop.

    Greetings: Is there anything out there that could allow me to hook up two monitors, one wireless MS sculpt keyboard, one wireless Logitech unified mouse, one desktop and laptop docking such that I can switch between PC and laptop without needing to plug and unplug the monitors, keyboard and...
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    Help! 3TB HDD becomes GPT protective partition if not plugged in SATA port.

    @vailr: thr PC is Dell XPS 8700, the device manager shows it's Intel controller. I try other 3TB Seagate and have no problem. @Elixer: thanks for the link. Thank you all for your suggestion and help. After unplugging from the internal sata and plug it back into the dock and the external...
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    Help! 3TB HDD becomes GPT protective partition if not plugged in SATA port.

    Greetings: I have Seagate 3TB, 7200RPM SATA HDD. When installing it in an USB 3.0 external enclosure or SATA to eSATA dock, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit shows the drive in disk management as GPT Protective Partition where every context menu such as conversion, assigned letter etc are grayed out and I...