How to print a list of MS office 97 Word files

[donna4456]

Hi and thanks to anyone who may know how to print out a list of MS Office 97 Word files I have them saved in a folder. If I highlight all files in the folder and then say print, it trys to open each file and print it. Or if I try to select all files and copy,, and then try to paste the list in a word document it says I don't have enough memory. That is not what I'm trying to do, but that is what it does when I copy and paste the list. Any Help would be great ....thanks again Donna 🙂

 

[geoff2k]

Open up an MS-DOS prompt, change to the drive letter you want, then CD into the full path of the directory you want to list. Then, do a DIR /B > (filename to output list to).

So that's the theory, here's an example:

If I have a bunch of files in D:\Geoff's Files\Word Documents\ that I would like listed and put into c:\list_of_files.txt I would:

open an MS-DOS prompt
type D:
type cd "\Geoff's Files\Word Documents"
type dir /b > c:\list_of_files.txt
type exit

You can then pull list_of_files.txt into notepad or Word to print it.

Does that help?

 

[vi edit]

Yeh, geoff2k is cranking out his lEEt DOS skills 😛

But, that's the same suggestion that I was going to provide.

Just remember to substitute the right pathname in place of his example.