Renaming a lot of files

Renaming a lot of files

I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of word files 
on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.  Unfortunately she used 
numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.

Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane the file 
extension to .doc?

Please revert with your ideas asap.

Regards
Ansie Pretorius

date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:53:00 -0700 author: Ansie

Re: Renaming a lot of files

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:53:00 -0700, Ansie 
wrote:

>I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of word files 
>on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.  Unfortunately she used 
>numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.
>
>Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane the file 
>extension to .doc?
>
>Please revert with your ideas asap.
>
>Regards
>Ansie Pretorius

There are many programs for renaming files available on the Internet, many of
them free to download. Try this Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bulk+file+rename


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Jay Freedman
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date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:12:23 -0400 author: Jay Freedman

Re: Renaming a lot of files

Word should recognize its own files regardless of the name, so you could 
simply rename them as you use them.
There are plenty of third party renaming utilities around, or you could 
rename in DOS.
The simplest approach is to patch the registry to give you a dos prompt from 
any folder in Windows Explorer e.g. 
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Dos_Prompt_Here. The registry patch 
you can download from that page will add the necessary entries. Then from 
Windows Explorer, Right click the folder containing the documents and select 
'dos prompt here'
Type
Ren *.* *.DOC
then enter to change the extensions of all the files in the current folder 
to DOC.

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Ansie wrote:
> I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of
> word files on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.
> Unfortunately she used numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.
>
> Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane
> the file extension to .doc?
>
> Please revert with your ideas asap.
>
> Regards
> Ansie Pretorius

date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:18:48 +0300 author: Graham Mayor

RE: Renaming a lot of files

If you choose to go the DOS command route, it is important that you note that 
by changing a series of files with the names file.1, file.2, into .doc, you 
will essentially overwrite the file each time. (the root filename for each is 
"file", making "file.doc" from each file)

the easiest way to do this without running into filename conflicts is as 
follows:

ren file.* file.*.doc

that way the files produced will be file.1.doc, file.2.doc, etc.

"Ansie" wrote:

> I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of word files 
> on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.  Unfortunately she used 
> numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.
> 
> Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane the file 
> extension to .doc?
> 
> Please revert with your ideas asap.
> 
> Regards
> Ansie Pretorius
>

date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:49:02 -0700 author: DiSSo

RE: Renaming a lot of files

Thank you for your kind assistance.

"DiSSo" wrote:

> If you choose to go the DOS command route, it is important that you note that 
> by changing a series of files with the names file.1, file.2, into .doc, you 
> will essentially overwrite the file each time. (the root filename for each is 
> "file", making "file.doc" from each file)
> 
> the easiest way to do this without running into filename conflicts is as 
> follows:
> 
> ren file.* file.*.doc
> 
> that way the files produced will be file.1.doc, file.2.doc, etc.
> 
> "Ansie" wrote:
> 
> > I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of word files 
> > on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.  Unfortunately she used 
> > numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.
> > 
> > Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane the file 
> > extension to .doc?
> > 
> > Please revert with your ideas asap.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Ansie Pretorius
> >

date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:12:01 -0700 author: Ansie

Re: Renaming a lot of files

Thank you for your kind assistance.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

> Word should recognize its own files regardless of the name, so you could 
> simply rename them as you use them.
> There are plenty of third party renaming utilities around, or you could 
> rename in DOS.
> The simplest approach is to patch the registry to give you a dos prompt from 
> any folder in Windows Explorer e.g. 
> http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Dos_Prompt_Here. The registry patch 
> you can download from that page will add the necessary entries. Then from 
> Windows Explorer, Right click the folder containing the documents and select 
> 'dos prompt here'
> Type
> Ren *.* *.DOC
> then enter to change the extensions of all the files in the current folder 
> to DOC.
> 
> -- 
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> Graham Mayor -  Word MVP
> 
> My web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> 
> 
> 
> Ansie wrote:
> > I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of
> > word files on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.
> > Unfortunately she used numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.
> >
> > Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane
> > the file extension to .doc?
> >
> > Please revert with your ideas asap.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ansie Pretorius 
> 
> 
>

date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:13:01 -0700 author: Ansie

Re: Renaming a lot of files

Thank you for your kind assistance.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:53:00 -0700, Ansie 
> wrote:
> 
> >I hope someone can assist me.  My predecessor saved a whole lot of word files 
> >on stiffies, which I need to return to our system.  Unfortunately she used 
> >numbers ie file.1, file.2 etc.
> >
> >Is there a way that I can rename these files (all at once) to chane the file 
> >extension to .doc?
> >
> >Please revert with your ideas asap.
> >
> >Regards
> >Ansie Pretorius
> 
> There are many programs for renaming files available on the Internet, many of
> them free to download. Try this Google search:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=bulk+file+rename
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
>

date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:13:02 -0700 author: Ansie