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Glad it worked for you, Margaret. If this has been of any use to anyone there is another way in XP which allows you to right click on a folder and directly print out its contents to your default printer - it does involve tweaking the registry but is really quite easy so please let me know if you want the details.

Just did it -- copied the list into Excel -- never even tried that before. I'm so pleased!! That will be great, because now I can make an extra column and do another list alphabetical by song titles (currently by artist) Many thanks for all your help.

Thanks Errol. I had to do some fiddling with the name of the file (had my name in front since we all have our own music files). Once I deleted that, it worked like a charm. Found the list. Any chance you know how to re-arrange the list in alphabetical order? It seems to be in order of how I added them to the file - nearly 1000 over the last 6 months. Manually it might take me a while!!!

If you type cd\ it will take you back to the root directory or cd.. will take you back one directory (folder) at a time.

Alright Errol - I tried 'command' and it got me to a DOS prompt box. But the prompt said D:\Music> and I couldn't go backwards, only add stuff on to it. The prompt only said that because I had clicked on the open file before hitting start. I also tried it with no files open and got C:\Windows\desktop> Again, I couldn't erase any of these letters. At least I'm one step further ahead than before.

I think that in Windows 98 you may have to type 'command' instead of 'cmd'.

That's ok Margaret - it should still work - it's just that very often people have their files stored more deeply on the computer hence the longer 'path'.

Oh well.....the thought was a good one. When I tried to get cmd, it came up with ''cannot find the file cmd (or one of it's components). Make sure etc......'' But I will keep the instructions for when I join the 21st century and get XP!!

Lynn, I've tried that, but if I select copy - I get the actual songs rather than just the titles. Errol, I will try that; though just having a quick go shows that my location is D:\ and that is all - nothing after that (my file is directly on D), but I'm pretty sure I can follow your directions. Will let you know what happens.

This works for Windows XP and I THINK will also work for 98. 1. Open the folder. 2. Right click a blank area within it and select Properties. 3. Next to 'Location:' it will give what is known as the 'path' to your file - write this down so for example, C:\something\somethingelse\etc (note the BACKWARDS facing slashes). 4. At the end add another backwards slash and whatever it says in the little box just above, such as 'music' or 'my documents' etc. 5. Now click on Start and then Run and type 'cmd' (without the quotes) in the box. 6. This will bring up the command or C prompt. Next to it, type (without the quotes) 'CD' then a space and then what you wrote down earlier followed by the Enter key. 7. Now type in (again without the quotes) 'dir' followed by a space then a > then another space then 'list.txt' - it should look like this 'dir > list.txt' followed by Enter. 8. Type 'Exit' and press Enter to close the command prompt window. 9. If you now open the folder you will find a file called list.txt which, on opening, you will notice contains a list of everything in that folder which you can then print out.

hi i dont know much but try going through your file and selecting only the titles, then click on copy... open a new page and paste then you can edit as you like.. hope that helps have a nice day .. lynn x

anyone?

I have a file with lots of songs in it. Is there any way I can get a printout that shows all the titles? The only thing I can come up with so far is to do a screenshot, scroll to the next lot, another screenshot etc., but that doesn't give me just a list of the titles. I don't know if this makes any difference but I am working with Windows 98.