How to rename multiple files at once using Excel (Windows)
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2021
- Change file names in Windows Command Prompt:
ren "old filename.ext" "new filename.ext"
Use Excel to make multiple copies of this code then paste it back into Command Prompt.
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I thought I was going to have to spend hours renaming 2000 files and this literally saved my life. THANK YOU!
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I looked up 6 different web guides on renaming files and didn't find what I needed... this is exactly it. You saved me hours and hours of work, thanks so much!
Absolutely fantastic!!! So easy to follow, so well explained and so incredibly much time saved. Thank you so, so much, this is truly one of the best videos that ever existed
Thank You, Thank You. I had hundreds of files that needed renaming, and thought “There’s got to be an App that does this.” And then lo and behold, I tripped over your UA-cam video that showed I already “had” the App with Windows and Excel! Your super clear instructions were a wonder, and I got the files renamed as if by magic. I, of course, saved the spreadsheet, and have already reused it as a template for other lists of files. Cut, Paste, doublecheck, and Done! THANK YOU!
To say that this has increased my productivity by ten times fold is an understatement. This is perfect!!! and Thank you Karina A.
This is far one of the best videos about how to rename multiple files at once.
The possibility to use excel unlocks so many other things like logical ways to set file names and them use it in file names. That's awesome. Thanks a lot
I just used this workflow to rename 2000 photos that were incorrectly renamed during an import into Lightroom that crashed half way through. This workflow has literally saved me days of work. Thanks so much Karina!
Renaming several hundred wav files for the sake of changing two numbers in the file name was no fun at all. THIS has been a brilliant time saver. Thank you SOOO MUCH Karina for your fantastic help 👍👍👍👍
You are my hero!
I work in an Accounts Payable position and this will be a massive time saver for splitting & renaming large statements. I just shared it with my team too. Thank you so much for posting this and making it so easy to follow along and learn.
I have tried every file renamer in the book - without success. So, after spending hours today and weeks and months before trying to find how to completely rename each one of a long list of files in a file directory it has taken this wonderful lady Brit to come up with the answer - and so briefly and succinctly, too! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Oh! and plus the =A2&B2&C2 - which is so much quicker than concat)!
This video has been absolutely vital to me and my team as we needed to rename hundreds of glossary terms, this has saved us and our business hours of droll work!
Thankyou so much for this!!!
Outstanding delivery/explanation. So simple. I went through half a dozen videos where the speaker just jumpes into the steps without explaining the reasoning.
Great job!!😊
I am a university student from Thailand. Thank you very much for helping me to solve the task of resolving many variants of file names in a short time after I was stuck on this problem for a long time.
Bravo. Just had to change the name of each file in 40 different folders. Took me about an hour, which is peanuts compared to doing it manually.
It's one of the best tricks.
OMG!!! I love you :) was able to rename 500 files at once. Can't believe how easy and time saving it is
Best tech video I've ever seen. It is easy to follow, easy to set it up, and the Excel template that gets created, can be re-used over and over effortlessly. Thank You so much
Youre a lethal badass, Karina! Cutting straight through with 100% killer and no filler. I truly appreciate your clear and succinct style. So very well done!!!
You're a diamond!
I've seen a few videos teaching this skill, but all required the audience to download some 3rd party software from a sketchy site.
So good to see that we can do this with excel and not have to put our computer's security at risk.
Thank you so much :)
Oh my gosh, this is amazing! I needed to batch rename 125 files that had TWO sequential numbers in them, and wasn't sure if even a batch rename app existed to do this. Despite knowing the ren command, I never would have considered using a spreadsheet to create the commands in bulk! Thank you!
Hi Karina. Not sure if you are still active on this video but wanted to say a huge thank you for the video. I needed to remame 300+ files and your video helped me to do that so very gratful. Many thanks.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! Spent hours figuring out how to rename my files and I am so thankful to found your tutorial. Thanks for sharing this, it is truly helpful!!
Just used this and it worked out swimmingly, my girlfriend needed help renaming 3,000 folder names based on an excel file with a corresponding number. I really appreciate it.
I have been asking my colleagues for months on how to do this, and finally while burning the midnight oil I found the answer. Thank you
This has been an extremely helpful tutorial and opened a lot of possibilities on what I thought would be a very tedious process, thank you very much! Short and to the point with good visuals.
Not only has this tutorial saved loads of productivity time, it has also probably saved even many hours of just learning the trick somehow else
I was banging my head against the wall trying to write a script to do this. Thank you!
Great video! I changed it up a little by using concatenate in the last part to just include ren and spaces as part of the formula instead of dedicating columns to those elements. So useful!
This is so brilliant. And, I used to type the "RENAME" command like 250 to 300 times to rename everything. Gosh, it took the whole morning. This is so much faster just to add author at end.
Absolutely fantastic… really help a lot i had multiple folders with 300+ pdf file name to edit blessed to see you video
I've just renamed four thousand music files that had numbers and hyphens in front of the file names, now my iPod can play them, Thanks
Wow. Way easier than writing some VB. Thank you, Karina! You rock. I probably should have remembered that the command prompt could do that
You have no idea how much this trick means to me!!! I appreciate your help with this video a lot, Karina!
What a bloody legend mate, cheers!
You're a godsend!
I had 3 folders with 60+ files to rename in each folder. This took a task that would of taken 1/2 day to do down to less than 10 minutes
Saved me from renaming 160 images separately, thank you SO MUCH Karina!
I would have had to tediously scan and rename each individual file in a folder of 500 chinese-named files for my translation project. But this guaranteed only the exact files got renamed. Thanks so much! Saved me HOURS!
Amazing! This reduced so much of my workload. I now keep the excel at hand, anytime I have to add something to multiple filenames. Thank you!
Wow, using Excel as a means to generate large amounts of individual CMD prompts is a genius idea. Thank you!
Amazing video! So well explained and really easy to follow. One of the best videos I’ve ever watched as it impacted my work life so much!
10/10 quality tutorial. Well explained and paced as well. Thank you so much for this
Amazing, superb, ive just done this for 2000+ folder with this technique and it works, thanks for saving my time
Thank you so much for this. I used to do this in PowerAutomate, but I no longer have access to MS. Now I have created an Google Sheets template and doing it this way is even quicker! Thanks again!
OMG it worked!!
Your a fricken LIFE SAVER!
I search a pile of docs and tutes online; written by numpties and got nowhere.
Thanks so much for sharing this. xo
Thank you very much!! You are a life saver. I had to rename 226 files, and your tutorial saved me from long suffer! Thanks again!
thanks mam.... i just changed name of around 120 files with the help of your video.... thanks again mam it saved me lot of time
Such a great video - best tutorial I’ve ever seen. Very interested to check out the others even though I don’t need them right now. Thank you for making this, Karina!
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I am sure that there are a myriad of ways to do this but I really appreciate how straight and simple this was. I also enjoyed how well you gave directions clearly and made it simple for users to follow and get the results they were looking for with MINIMAL knowledge and processing.
BRAVO SISTER!!!! Absolutely fantastic and I am thankful to you! Keep Exceling ;).
-Girls Who Love Data
You know how to teach.
Wish I had teachers like you in my school.
Thank you.
This one video saved me one hour of work. I cannot stress how much I appreciate you!
Straight to the point with clear instructions. Thats how a YT tutorial should be...THANK YOU so much..
I already have some apps that can rename multiple files but it's hard to keep them in right order. With your solution, the sort order is absolute right. Thanks very much for your sharing.
That is marvelous!! I never knew that renaming multiple files is that easy without coding.
I was astonished to see the video.
Waiting for more videos like this.
I immediately subscribed to your channel.
My first time commenting on a UA-cam video. This really helped me. Thank you!
Wow! just WOW! You are my HERO!
I love organizing my files so I usually rename them (especially downloaded files with so many extra characters) so it will be neat and consistent. Though my fingers are fast on keyboard, renaming hundreds of files is still tedious. I finally decided to search whether bulk renaming is possible without using 3rd party apps. This really saved my day! This is so amazing! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I used this trick at my internship, and it got me good praises!
Thanks a lot, I was struggling to rename almost 100 files, you made it easier.
please give this woman a nobel prize for renaming files.
OHMYGOD!!! You just saved me HOURS of tidious work! So well explained! Thank you so so much!!
Excellent! Explained in a lucid manner that anyone can easily follow it. Thank you. Much appreciated.
thanks you just saved me from manually changing 1000 file names
exactly what I was looking for, straight to the point, no BS, thumbs up and subscribed!
What a amazing tutorial, you solved my problem that took me almost 1week time on figure it out, thank you so much
Your incredible. I renamed 360+ plus files using this method. Dont know what I would do without you
You are amazing, thank you so much. Companys need more people like you. Good job!
Thanks alot my notepad crashed when I had 650 files open. Hopefully was save in backup with wanted to rename this helped alot 💯
Thanks so much for your help. I had the words in excel but I couldn't figure out how to make them into files. Using command was really cool!
Thank you so so much.. This technique is brilliant for a non-coding like people. I am really very grateful for this easy guidance.
This is a very smart method, thanks for posting this! Like most comments, you have saved me a big headache, I was trying to get AI to write a script to accomplish this with mixed success. To others, ***if you want to do this on macOS,*** it works too. Just copy and paste a group of files intoTextEdit after selecting "Format, Make Plain Text" from the menu to make the file list, and copy/paste into Excel. Then in terminal, use the "mv oldFileName newFileName" command to rename the files, in the same method as the video. (in the correct path). Paste the column into terminal. Wow thanks!
Can you elaborate on this 'ust copy and paste a group of files intoTextEdit after selecting "Format, Make Plain Text" from the menu to make the file list' please
Hi there, thank you for this. There is also a quick way via VB at this location. It didn't work for me initially because I had a pipe (|) in my rename and the only way I worked out that problem was by following your tutorial. It really helps to go back to basics.
this is very helpful. A task that would have taken me an hour took me a few minutes. THANK YOU
GENIUS!!!!! I've never ever thought to do it this way. Blown away!
this exactly what i have been looking for all day. thank you
This was an absolute life-saver! Best way I have seen to do this in a long time.
Thank you! This is so easy! Especially for those of us who remember the days of DOS
🙂 This saved me a lot of time. I used this technique for SQL Queries and now also for terminal commands 🙂
WOW! Thank you so very much. Like some other comments, I thought I'd have to change over 700 file names manually.
Absolutely fantastic video - saved me and my team several hours!!!!!! Thanks a million.
This video was excellent - really clear, worked first time. Thank you!
Wow, I didn't know I could open 'cmd' from a explorer window and already in the path I need. I've always had to mess with other commands to change the directory. Thanks!
Wow!!! Fantastic!! I wish I found this trick out years and years ago. I would have saved countless hours renaming files.
Excellent video. straight to the point, clear, and functional. Thank you.
Awesome, I had a job to rename 39 files with spesific names, thank you...
lo maximooooo!
translating, this is an awesome solution to a very big problem>
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
I just used bulk rename utility to remane 384 files, but now the client sent me a list of the files and wanted TO ADD AREAS !! and that requires to touch one by one
no way
you just solved the problem, thank you again
I can't thank you enough, WOW.
Amazing things I learned in this video not only renaming.
God Bless You.
Thank you very much. Straight to the point, nothing more nothing less. Impressive.
Incredible!!!! Thank you so much. All the steps were explained very clearly and it was really very helpful. :)
This is very helpful for me. You explanation is very clear and simple. Thank you very much
Absolutely fantastic video. Straight to the point and very helpful.
Super guide! I had no idea you could paste lines into cmd en masse from Excel!
Thank you for this! I was able to fix so many problems using this! Life saver.
Thank you very much; I looked everywhere for this. Great job and great explanation!!
awesome ! i have to do this over and over again, can't tell you how much you saved me.
Thank you!! I cannot express how much this helps me. Really, thanks.
This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thanks a lot!
I was looking for the easiest way to do this and felt lazy to code (and fix bugs lol) thank you!!!
THANK YOU LADY ON UA-cam, YOU JUST SAVED ME, LIKE, A SOLID 2 HOURS
Brilliant! Re-named 21 seasons of South Park episodes with this, thanks so much
I found this just incredibly useful. Just superb. Thank you Karina. I can't remember when I was as excited! Perhaps it was in 1989 when I heard 'When You Come Back To Me' by Jason Donovan for the first time. Or maybe even further back and 'Souvenir' by OMD! :0)
This is amazing, just saved me a ton of manual work right now! Thanks!