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How to list all folders and subfolders in Excel?
Have you ever suffered with this problem that list all folders and subfolders from a specified directory into a worksheet? In Excel, there is no a quick and handy way to get the name of all the folders in a specific directory at once. To deal with the task, this article may help you.
List all folders and subfolders with VBA code
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List all folders and subfolders with VBA code
If you want to get all the folder names from a specified directory, the following VBA code may help you, please do as this:
1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code into the Module Window.
VBA code: List all folders and subfolder names
Sub FolderNames()
'Update 20141027
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim xPath As String
Dim xWs As Worksheet
Dim fso As Object, j As Long, folder1 As Object
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
.Title = "Choose the folder"
.Show
End With
On Error Resume Next
xPath = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker).SelectedItems(1) & "\"
Application.Workbooks.Add
Set xWs = Application.ActiveSheet
xWs.Cells(1, 1).Value = xPath
xWs.Cells(2, 1).Resize(1, 5).Value = Array("Path", "Dir", "Name", "Date Created", "Date Last Modified")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder1 = fso.getFolder(xPath)
getSubFolder folder1
xWs.Cells(2, 1).Resize(1, 5).Interior.Color = 65535
xWs.Cells(2, 1).Resize(1, 5).EntireColumn.AutoFit
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Sub getSubFolder(ByRef prntfld As Object)
Dim SubFolder As Object
Dim subfld As Object
Dim xRow As Long
For Each SubFolder In prntfld.SubFolders
xRow = Range("A1").End(xlDown).Row + 1
Cells(xRow, 1).Resize(1, 5).Value = Array(SubFolder.Path, Left(SubFolder.Path, InStrRev(SubFolder.Path, "\")), SubFolder.Name, SubFolder.DateCreated, SubFolder.DateLastModified)
Next SubFolder
For Each subfld In prntfld.SubFolders
getSubFolder subfld
Next subfld
End Sub
3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and a Choose the folder window will pop out, then you need to select the directory that you want to list the folder and subfolder names, see screenshot:
4. Click OK, and you will get the folder and subfolders path, directory, name, created date and last modified date in a new workbook, see screenshot:
Related article:
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