How to Copy a List of Files in a Windows Folder Into an Excel List. Maintaining an Excel spreadsheet of computer files can help you keep track of important business documents or images ...

Learn how to copy the list of file , folder, and subfolder names to the clipboard in Windows 11/10 using Explorer or the DIR command in CMD.

Q: I have about 200 files in a directory and I want to copy their file names as text so that I can make a list in Word. How do I do this?

AppleInsider reveals how to compile the list using TextEdit. There aren't many reasons why one would want to create a list of file names, but sometimes it can be quite a useful thing to produce.

You can copy the contents of a Text file,by right-clicking on the file and selecting Copy To Clipboard. You need to edit the Windows Registry to get this!