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This is probably so simple and I cannot believe I never wanted to do this before.

I want to copy the "list" of file names in a folder - NOT the files - just the names.

I have tried: Select All - Copy - BUT it will not paste as "text?"

What step(s) am I missing?

W-7 Professional 64-bit OS / Toshiba Laptop / 4GB RAM / Intel Core i5 CPU

Thank you...

You could do a screen capture of the open folder of files. But that would just give you an image of all the file names. Not the text of the file names themselves. Not sure if that helps.

I knew that, Chris, and did that to send some lists along showing the Threads that will eventually posted as ARCHIVES.

Thank you so much for the suggestion.

Along with editing each Thread to remove some trash (like: Quote, Multi-Quote, Like, etc.) and posting sporadically so as not to burden the Football Talk program, it will be at least a month before the entire batch saved will get here. Well, better late than later and most will fade to oblivion anyway. It would have been nice to offer a pick-and-choose of those to be posted first.

Thanks again...

It's a pain, and it involves working out of DOS (yes, DOS....in 2014), but it can be done:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196158

I am going to cross my fingers and my toes and give that a try in the next few days.

The link you provided tells me the exercise shown there is NOT for W-7 (and others) but it provides another link to be used with other OS(s.)

I went there and W-7 is listed - as is XP and VISTA. I have two older Toshibas - one with each of those OS(s) so I am thinking this function might be best attempted with the less "sophisticated" system. So, that is what I will try in the next few days.

Thank you so much for the advice. Whether it works or not, I will let you (and our membership) know here.

Thanks again...

hit the windows key to open the start window and at the bottom in the search programs and files box just type cmd and hit enter
a new window opens and you can type in this command dir c:\ >dir.txt
that would give you a text file named dir.txt with all the folders in your c:\ drive
you can add switches like /s to include all the subfolders
dir c:\ /s >dir.txt
you can put any path in place of c:\ like c:\user\mike\documents\downloads\football

if you open the text file in excel as a fixed field conversion you can sort by any column - name, date, size etc

very useful to keep track of your backups - easy to search for you files by name or date

the text file will look like this
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 8C-78

Directory of c:\

06/10/2009 05:42 PM 24 autoexec.bat
06/10/2009 05:42 PM 10 config.sys
02/06/2011 08:30 PM <DIR> dell
02/06/2011 08:30 PM <DIR> drvrtmp
01/09/2013 05:11 PM <DIR> IExp0.tmp
01/09/2013 05:11 PM <DIR> IExp1.tmp
02/06/2011 08:31 PM <DIR> Intel
07/13/2009 10:37 PM <DIR> PerfLogs
10/20/2014 01:12 PM <DIR> Program Files
12/19/2012 04:15 PM <DIR> Users
09/13/2014 10:01 AM <DIR> Windows
2 File(s) 34 bytes

Directory of c:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-1268428793-1488523021-1358943028-1000

08/11/2014 04:01 PM 544 $I01A4D9
08/18/2014 02:22 PM 544 $I07B97J.JPG
08/11/2014 03:39 PM 544 $I0P6WL1.mp3
08/09/2014 11:49 AM 544 $I14LNSR.JPG
08/18/2014 02:22 PM 544 $I1562L9.jpg
08/11/2014 04:01 PM 544 $I1SHDBZ
08/11/2014 04:01 PM 544 $I22EU0Q
10/15/2014 06:17 PM 544 $I2ASIPQ.jpg
08/20/2014 06:33 PM 544 $I2IAEA8.JPG
10/15/2014 06:17 PM 544 $I316CE1.jpg
07/29/2014 10:57 PM 544 $I34S99D
10/08/2014 03:30 PM 544 $I3CZ6AO.jpg
09/01/2014 01:19 PM 544 $I3F4QYW.jpg
08/18/2014 02:22 PM 544 $I3FPD5C.JPG
08/11/2014 03:39 PM 544 $I3UYQLD.mp3
09/28/2014 08:30 PM 544 $I3WL3O5.JPG
08/11/2014 03:39 PM 544 $I3WXJ9X.mp3
08/11/2014 03:39 PM 544 $I4782P4.mp3
08/09/2014 11:48 AM 544 $I49GRQS.jpg
08/18/2014 02:22 PM 544 $I4JGMNJ.JPG
08/11/2014 03:39 PM 544 $I4YF3O6.mp3
08/06/2014 07:06 PM 544 $I4Z9S2Y.jpg
08/11/2014 04:01 PM 544 $I5ICB1L
08/11/2014 04:01 PM 544 $I5W9MR5
07/29/2014 10:57 PM 544 $I5XJM4V