· 24 days ago
Hello. I did this for a couple of files and it worked successfully. The next few files i tried, did not work. There were a few formulas added to the new names, could that be the issue?
How to rename multiple files of a folder in Excel?
May be most of us are suffered with this problem that we need to rename multiple files in a folder, to rename the filenames one by one will make us crazy if there are hundreds or thousands files in that folder. Are there any good functions for us to deal with this task?
List all file names from a specific folder in worksheet with kutools for Excel
Rename multiple files of a folder in Excel with VBA code
List all file names from a specific folder in worksheet with kutools for Excel
If there are multiple files that you want to rename, first, you can list the old file names in a column of worksheet, and then enter the new filenames that you want to replace with. To quickly list all files in worksheet, you can use the Kutools for Excel’s Filename List utility.
After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:( Free Download Kutools for Excel Now )
1. Click Kutools Plus > Import & Export > Filename List, see screenshot:
2. In the Filename List dialog box, click 
button to choose the file folder that you want to list the files, and then click All files from the Files type, see screenshot:
3. Then click OK button, all the filenames have been list in a column of a new worksheet, as well as some file attributes, and now, you can delete other unwanted columns and only leave the File Name column, see screenshot:
Click to know more about this Filename List feature…
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Rename multiple files of a folder in Excel with VBA code
After listing all original filenames in one column A, and you should type new filenames in column B as following screenshot shown:
And here I will talk about a VBA code which may help you to replace the old filenames with the new filenames at once. Please do with following steps:
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 macro in the Module window.
VBA code: Rename multiple files in a folder
Sub RenameFiles()
'Updateby20141124
Dim xDir As String
Dim xFile As String
Dim xRow As Long
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
.AllowMultiSelect = False
If .Show = -1 Then
xDir = .SelectedItems(1)
xFile = Dir(xDir & Application.PathSeparator & "*")
Do Until xFile = ""
xRow = 0
On Error Resume Next
xRow = Application.Match(xFile, Range("A:A"), 0)
If xRow > 0 Then
Name xDir & Application.PathSeparator & xFile As _
xDir & Application.PathSeparator & Cells(xRow, "B").Value
End If
xFile = Dir
Loop
End If
End With
End Sub
3. After pasting the code, please press F5 key to run this code, and in the Browse window, select the folder which you want to change the filenames in, see screenshot:
4. And then click OK, all the old filenames have been replaced by the new filenames immediately. See screenshots:
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Notes:
1. When you list your old and new filenames, the file extension must be included.
2. In the above code, the reference A:A indicates the old filenames list you want to rename, and reference B contains the new filenames that you want to use, you can change them as your need
Demo: Rename multiple files of a folder in Excel
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.· 2 years agoHello, some of the files have same name. Scripts skip those files. Is there a way to modify the script so it adds a number 1, 2, 3 and so on for every duplicate name?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.· 2 years agoHello, Kay,
To rename the files based on duplicate new names with name-1,name-2, the following VBA code may help you, please try it.
Note: After pasting this code, you should reference the Microsoft Scripting Runtime option in the References-VBAProject dialog box as below screenshot shown.
Sub RenameFiles()
Dim xDir As String
Dim xFile As String
Dim xVal As String
Dim xRow As Long
Dim xCount As Long
Dim xTemp As Long
Dim xDictionary As New Dictionary
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
On Error Resume Next
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
.AllowMultiSelect = False
If .Show = -1 Then
xDir = .SelectedItems(1)
xFile = Dir(xDir & Application.PathSeparator & "*")
Do Until xFile = ""
xRow = 0
xRow = Application.Match(xFile, Range("A:A"), 0)
If xRow > 0 Then
xCount = 0
xVal = Cells(xRow, "B").Value
If Not xDictionary.Exists(xVal) Then
xDictionary.Add xVal, xCount
Else
xDictionary.Item(xVal) = xDictionary.Item(xVal) + 1
xTemp = InStrRev(xVal, ".")
Cells(xRow, "B").Value = Mid(xVal, 1, xTemp - 1) & "-" & CStr(xDictionary.Item(xVal)) & Mid(xVal, xTemp)
End If
Name xDir & Application.PathSeparator & xFile As _
xDir & Application.PathSeparator & Cells(xRow, "B").Value
End If
xFile = Dir
Loop
End If
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.· 2 years agoI cant understand with range ( A:A) or (B) how to define that, thank you
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.· 2 years agoHi, Dee,
As the note remind, the reference A:A indicates the old filenames list you want to rename, and reference B contains the new filenames that you want to use
, as following screenshot shown:
Hope this can help you, thank you!
