Showing posts with label File Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label File Management. Show all posts

Friday, 1 February 2008

How to rename multiple files

Whenever you want to rename multiple files with the same piece of text and an individual number for each file, as in photo1.jpg, photo2.jpg and so on, you usually either have to do this manually or use a batch rename program. Yet, Windows has the facility to do this, albeit in a rough-and-ready way.To rename multiple files, select all the files you wish to rename (in a previous post I looked at various...

Saturday, 8 December 2007

Keyboard shortcut of the week: control your selections

If you ever have to select more than one item at a time in a Windows program then you can use the control key, generally marked Ctrl. I find this technique particularly useful for dealing with my emails. I can hold down Ctrl and click on each spam email in turn, then take my finger off Ctrl and hit the Delete key so get rid of them all.Using Ctrl to select multiple items also works well in Window...