Convert a Windows directory structure to a Word Outline file.
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Hello everyone,
I would like to know if anyone among you can help me by recommending a program that converts the contents of a folder into an outline formatted Word document.
By taking a directory structure in Windows that has been built up over more than 10 years, I need to organize all the data contained by first producing a "classification plan." A classification plan is to a set of archives what a table of contents is to a book.
I used an open-source software called LUD.exe (great!) to produce a layout of the file server's hierarchy, which serves as a canvas for developing my classification plan. But so far, the best I've managed to do are lists in Excel.
In Word, however, displaying in outline mode would offer many more advantages: it preserves the functionality of the hierarchy of levels ("expand, collapse, and uncollapse" the structure), and especially allows for "remodeling" the classification by interspersing and transposing folders with the mouse, including everything they contain.
So the question is whether there’s a program that can migrate the directory tree data directly into a word.docx file (or another), as it appears in the OS (Windows 7) — without everything being converted into plain text and requiring manual processing again using outline mode.
This involves converting a folder hierarchy, not counting the files (and their various formats),
Do you have a solution?
Thank you very much in advance for your response.
I would like to know if anyone among you can help me by recommending a program that converts the contents of a folder into an outline formatted Word document.
By taking a directory structure in Windows that has been built up over more than 10 years, I need to organize all the data contained by first producing a "classification plan." A classification plan is to a set of archives what a table of contents is to a book.
I used an open-source software called LUD.exe (great!) to produce a layout of the file server's hierarchy, which serves as a canvas for developing my classification plan. But so far, the best I've managed to do are lists in Excel.
In Word, however, displaying in outline mode would offer many more advantages: it preserves the functionality of the hierarchy of levels ("expand, collapse, and uncollapse" the structure), and especially allows for "remodeling" the classification by interspersing and transposing folders with the mouse, including everything they contain.
So the question is whether there’s a program that can migrate the directory tree data directly into a word.docx file (or another), as it appears in the OS (Windows 7) — without everything being converted into plain text and requiring manual processing again using outline mode.
This involves converting a folder hierarchy, not counting the files (and their various formats),
Do you have a solution?
Thank you very much in advance for your response.
