Vista - Save a list of folder contents

Hi

is there a way in Vist Ultimate to save a list of the folder contents so
they can be printed or
loaded into a spreadsheet?

thanks

Daniel

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:28:03 +1100, "Daniel" <none@none> wrote:

>Hi
>
>is there a way in Vist Ultimate to save a list of the folder contents so
>they can be printed or
>loaded into a spreadsheet?
>
>thanks
>
>Daniel
>
Wouldn't that be nice!

Not exactly what you're asking but a nice surprise:

Windows Explorer finally supports printing of contents of folders...
if they contains pictures. If you first have at least one selected it
seems. Then the little printer icon appears at the top of the Windows
Explorer Window on the Tool Bar.

Try a folder you have images in and blow me over, at the top of the
window there is a print button, Press it and Vista now can makes
thumbnails or Contact Sheets in various styles. Way to go Microsoft!

I tried to see what would happen for text files and the print option
only opens the document selected in its default application and only
for one document at a time.

Now if you simply want to print a list of your directory tree so you
get a list of what's in each folder that you can do, with several
third party applications, some free, some low cost shareware.

I like a little application called Directory Printer. Worked nice in
XP, don't know if it works in Vista, haven't installed it yet. It
works like Windows Explorer, opens a similar window but lets you print
the contents of folders in any order, exclude some, that kind of
thing.

To print a file out and have it get loaded into a spreadsheet you
typically have to "delimit" the list somehow. Usually very simple,
like delimited by a coma, so like:

Jane Doe, 1234 main steet, Alanta, Ga, 23456
John Smith, 345 Maple Ave, Chicago, Il, 60666

Then what ever falls between the coma, gets dumped into the
appropriate column in the spreadsheet.

I forgot, doesn't Microsoft's Word have some similar table feature
that can do this?

Open a command prompt. Type in:

dir C:\my folder name here\my subfolder name here\*.* >
directoryList.txt

Dale

"Daniel" <none@none> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> is there a way in Vist Ultimate to save a list of the folder contents so
> they can be printed or
> loaded into a spreadsheet?
>
> thanks
>
> Daniel
>