How to rename multiple files at once using Excel (Windows)

[@AlejandroPierro-o8r]

no ads, straight to the point, clear instructions, no unnecessary music and no asking to subscribe. YOU ARE AMAZING!! Thanks!!!!!

[@karinbauer4538]

I thought I was going to have to spend hours renaming 2000 files and this literally saved my life. THANK YOU!

[@numerodoz3403]

2000 reminds me of smth..

[@TJ-tu5xc]

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

[@ritikjain5660]

please give this woman a nobel prize for renaming files.

[@vincentlao9498]

To say that this has increased my productivity by ten times fold is an understatement. This is perfect!!! and Thank you Karina A.

[@TakingTheMike]

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!

[@deeeff1994]

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

[@CarlosFeral]

😍OMG you saved me like 4 hours of work!!!

[@bandabocasanta]

This level of knowledge, with such fluid walk through and for free? I have no words! You're simply the best.

[@ONoarhO_Not-Know]

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.

[@RobertABradley]

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 KZbin 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!

[@heitorcassanta364]

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

[@bluenosedive]

OMG!!! I love you :) was able to rename 500 files at once. Can't believe how easy and time saving it is

[@hughevelyn3393]

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)!

[@linejunction]

Briliant. The most difficult part was finding your video! Thank you

[@Motionbuck]

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!!!

[@sahilaggarwal2835]

Straight to the point with clear instructions. Thats how a YT tutorial should be...THANK YOU so much..

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz9]

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.

[@AONomad]

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!

[@TheMooper27]

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 :)

[@VincentX]

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.

[@levlylove]

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!

[@MonicaMoore-q5r]

KARINA! LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!!!! YOU JUST SAVED ME HOURSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! 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

[@peibarry1335]

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

[@LarahSardia]

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!!

[@Synthnerd11]

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 👍👍👍👍

[@tdvr43]

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.

[@HuyNguyen-wz8lx]

You have no idea how much this trick means to me!!! I appreciate your help with this video a lot, Karina!

[@MrinalTrivedi]

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!!😊

[@O_M_]

This is amazing 🤝 I had nearly 3000 files to rename this made it so much Easy

[@kennethgreen2829]

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.

[@JKiefer]

Wow, using Excel as a means to generate large amounts of individual CMD prompts is a genius idea. Thank you!

[@Klokinator]

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!

[@maguelonehenriot1158]

I was about to give up and you saved my day !!! Thanks a lot 😀

[@Roguewiz]

Wow. Way easier than writing some VB. Thank you, Karina! You rock. I probably should have remembered that the command prompt could do that

[@icleducafro8556]

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

[@dukesnoogens]

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

[@buzznut]

What a bloody legend mate, cheers!

[@JustinPayton]

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

[@jasonzdora]

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!!!

[@MatharuCH]

Saved me from renaming 160 images separately, thank you SO MUCH Karina!

[@bandipalli]

Thank you very much. Straight to the point, nothing more nothing less. Impressive.

[@jonathanedwards1108]

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!

[@conniecampbell2668]

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

[@shivhota627]

Absolutely fantastic… really help a lot i had multiple folders with 300+ pdf file name to edit blessed to see you video

[@domanticthoughts2307]

My first time commenting on a KZbin video. This really helped me. Thank you!

[@JavierDrWeld]

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

[@NikhilKumar-zk9kx]

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

[@smzai410]

Amazing, superb, ive just done this for 2000+ folder with this technique and it works, thanks for saving my time

[@sohailahmed8309]

You know how to teach. Wish I had teachers like you in my school. Thank you.

[@lucyameliasumual8157]

This is so helpfull!!! Thank you very much!! I almost cry because i have to rename thousand of files..

[@SharonJohnson-p6v]

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!

[@DavidBelmar-zw2vc]

You are amazing, thank you so much. Companys need more people like you. Good job!

[@forte_dx1813]

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!

[@PoeLemic]

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.

[@MrGmo422]

This one video saved me one hour of work. I cannot stress how much I appreciate you!

[@wahyunawangwulan8767]

NICE!!! You’re an angel! You save my life renaming hundreds of files ❤❤❤

[@ajd2344]

I was banging my head against the wall trying to write a script to do this. Thank you!

[@sidhedanu]

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!

[@arka9294]

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.

[@xgeo-learnspanish4917]

Wow!!! Fantastic!! I wish I found this trick out years and years ago. I would have saved countless hours renaming files.

[@Lillykat003]

OHMYGOD!!! You just saved me HOURS of tidious work! So well explained! Thank you so so much!!

[@samlyall9668]

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!

[@ahyathartono7765]

Totally clear explanation, amazing. Thank you for the tutorial

[@redchai10]

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!

[@sagar_bhalerao]

Thanks a lot, I was struggling to rename almost 100 files, you made it easier.

[@zukuma1692]

Your incredible. I renamed 360+ plus files using this method. Dont know what I would do without you

[@whiskeytangowhiskey]

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!

[@phunguyen305]

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.

[@liouaflazi9537]

Brilliant, Right to the point, well explained, step by step with a lot of tricks that help you in other tasks, I loved the trick of how to extract only the extensions. thank you very much

[@Yige-wc8ih]

What a amazing tutorial, you solved my problem that took me almost 1week time on figure it out, thank you so much

[@john9291]

great stuff, works a treat and much quicker than trying to re-learn regex

[@marconico1012]

10/10 quality tutorial. Well explained and paced as well. Thank you so much for this

[@maty1229]

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.

[@jnay2728]

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!

[@NicoleVioletaCoble]

What a great tutorial! Concise and super helpful, thanks Karina!

[@nabeelmahmood9735]

thanks you just saved me from manually changing 1000 file names

[@toddpowell9118]

Such a great walk trough with simple detail. Saved me hours.

[@bandipalli]

Excellent! Explained in a lucid manner that anyone can easily follow it. Thank you. Much appreciated.

[@vipulsinghal7]

Thank you so so much.. This technique is brilliant for a non-coding like people. I am really very grateful for this easy guidance.

[@bgrung]

GENIUS!!!!! I've never ever thought to do it this way. Blown away!

[@rlrconsulting]

This was an absolute life-saver! Best way I have seen to do this in a long time.

[@MOATHALSHIBLIvfx]

this exactly what i have been looking for all day. thank you

[@marktheirl1842]

Thank you! This is so easy! Especially for those of us who remember the days of DOS

[@AlexanderHartmann71]

🙂 This saved me a lot of time. I used this technique for SQL Queries and now also for terminal commands 🙂

[@MrPerezOP]

goated. ngl. don't know why i didn't think of this, but this was goated.

[@Kiet-Tran]

I used this trick at my internship, and it got me good praises!

[@davids3313]

WOW! Thank you so very much. Like some other comments, I thought I'd have to change over 700 file names manually.

[@theusmansem]

I can't thank you enough, WOW. Amazing things I learned in this video not only renaming. God Bless You.

[@kostastekos4402]

Absolutely fantastic video. Straight to the point and very helpful.

[@rakeshg7879]

This is very helpful for me. You explanation is very clear and simple. Thank you very much

[@Xtremeshot007]

Lady, you are a legend. Although my BP went up with all the columns. I have to rename 2500 files. That brought me here😑❤

[@David-pu8vs]

exactly what I was looking for, straight to the point, no BS, thumbs up and subscribed!

[@catcameo1670]

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!

[@jimmyzea8760]

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

[@embeathome1]

Karina, thank you! Fantastic tutorial!! You saved me hours of work!

[@aura_6913]

THANK YOU LADY ON KZbin, YOU JUST SAVED ME, LIKE, A SOLID 2 HOURS

[@nausheenali9747]

Incredible!!!! Thank you so much. All the steps were explained very clearly and it was really very helpful. :)

[@tomwaterhouse9419]

This video was excellent - really clear, worked first time. Thank you!

[@javierperez9034]

Incredible!, you saved me so much time. Wish I knew this before. I already subscribed, your videos are so useful keep doing this please...

[@MasayaShida]

this is very helpful. A task that would have taken me an hour took me a few minutes. THANK YOU