Make lists of Windows files in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 with DDFileCatcher

How to make lists of Windows Explorer files and folder contents in Microsoft Word

You see the files you want to list in Windows Explorer. Perhaps you want to list the files from several folders or drives in a Word document, or just pick a few files from a folder to list. DDFileCatcher uses the most efficient and user-friendly method of collecting Windows files and listing them in Microsoft Word. Simply drag and drop any number of files or folders onto DDFileCatcher, open your Word document, put the cursor where you want the file list, and click a button to send it from DDFileCatcher.

Launch DDFileCatcher and drop the files onto it from Windows Explorer. Select the format and and file properties to show. Open a Word document on the page where you want to put the table with file information.

On DDFileCatcher, click the "Send filepath list to" menu and then "Microsoft Word". The "Send to Word" dialog will appear.

Put the text cursor in Word where you want the table of file information from DDFileCatcher to begin, and then click the "Set table position" button.

File information can be put in Word in a table or just as plain text. It is better to use a table if other file properties are to be shown, as each property goes in a column of the table. You can choose to use a table using the "Show settings form" button.

The table, or rows of file information, will start where the text cursor is. Click the "Send to Word" button

The table of file information will be put in the document by DDFileCatcher. Drag the columns to the widths you want if necessary.

Here the table of file information has been put in the Word document.

An advantage of putting file information in a Word document is that you can use all the formatting and features of Word for printing, which wouldn't be available if the files had been printed out directly from DDFileCatcher. Also, by sending the files to Word, you have an electronic copy of what was printed.

To add to the table, just put the cursor in the table and send from DDFileCatcher again with new files. DDFileCatcher recognizes existing file list tables in Word, and adds to them in the same format with the same file properties.

The format of the table above is "Folders/filenames". DDFileCatcher also outputs "Full filepaths" and "Filenames" only to Word (and Excel). It saves in other formats for saving to databases and the Clipboard.

DDFileCatcher works in the same way with Microsoft Excel.

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