Thank you very much for this.

By the way, nice blog. I’m learning a lot.

Thanks

=WMID(A1,WORDCOUNT(A1,”"),1,”")

For the quick Quick TTC utility, It may be nice to have the option of auto-shifting columns to the right instead the default Overwrite behavior.

That is to say, the native Excel TTC warns me that it will overwrite columns with existing data. I have click the “no” option, adjust the columns myself, then go through the TTC wizard again. I would be nice to have an option where this automatically happens.

The layout of the data from the right-to-left approach, with the exception of the last column, provides no information that is easily usable — at least as far as I can tell. And, of course, the “last column” will shift from one folder to another depending on how many sub-folders there are in the starting folder. If you must stick with this approach, reverse the layout. File-name, parent, parent-of-parent, …, disk-drive. Still not very useful but at least column 1 is now known with certainty.

Also, going down the code path is an invitation for “yes, that’s good but how about this feature…” enhancements to the code…you’ll land up with another wizard. {grin}

I would simplify the problem. Given a list of full names extracting the last token is pretty easy. If you must use code, just use the VB InStrRev function (either in a subroutine or — and this would be my preference — through a VBA wrapper function). And, of course, there is always the formula =MID(I5,FIND(CHAR(255),SUBSTITUTE(I5,”",CHAR(255),LEN(I5)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(I5,”",”"))))+1,255) where “” is the delimiter of interest and I5 contains the full filename (or any other “complete identifier”)

I could be wrong but in this case creating support functions will yield a richer and more reusable library than writing a quick utility. You could have a filename function, a parent-folder function, a disk-drive function, a nesting-depth function, etc. It will take less (or at least no more) time than the quick utility and provide a much better “return on investment.”

From Seattle, MVP Summit, Day 1

If all you wanted was the file name (the right-most part), an easy (non-programmatic) way of achieving this is to have performed a Search and Replace (ctrl-H). Replace “*” with [Nothing]. The result would have been just the file name. I often use this “trick” when I need to parse “Last Name, First Name” combinations.

David