Re: FW: Convert a directory of Word files to a TOC

["Margaret Hassall" <margaret -dot- hassall -at- gmail -dot- com>]

A possibility ...

I have a macro(s) in an Excel spreadsheet that gets a starting folder
as input from a dialog and then writes in all the files and
sub-folders it finds, using the Excel columns to indent to show the
folder tree structure. (I created it to get a list of topics in a Help
project).

You can check a box to request that if it finds a Word file, then it
adds in the first Heading 1 it finds - it displays it on the same row
as the file name, but a few columns along. It's not in Word, but you
can copy/paste to Word if you want. There are some columns with file
counts that you might not want.

It's a work in progress (haven't made it robust with error checking),
and I can't get titles from HTML files yet. It's about 150Kb in size.

Would this help?

Margaret
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> Subject: Convert a directory of Word files to a TOC
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> Hi, guys...I want to do something that is over my head.
>
> I was given over 250mb of Word files from an outside vendor (about 50
> files). They are named by seqential numbers (MPLS20S04L01.doc,
> MPLS20S04L02.doc, etc, though the numbers come in different groups) .
> What I'd like to do is programmitcally, generate a TOC type of doc
> that contains the file name and H1 title that can be picked up from
> inside of the document.
>
> That means something programmically has to start at the top of the
> directory, write the file name ot a TOC Word doc, open the doc, write
> the H1 to the TOC Word doc, close, go to the next file, write the
> filename to the TOC doc, open and write the H1 title to the TOC doc,
> etc.
>
> No links, just a list.  Has anyone done something like this before?
>
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> John Posada
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