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Quickly create folders based on cell values in Excel

Supposing there is a list of your company employee names in an Excel file and you want to quickly create a file folder for each employee by using this list of data in Excel, with the help of Create Folders from Cell Contents utility of Kutools for Excel, you can easily create multiple file folders by using the contents of cell values.

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Click Kutools Plus >> Import & Export >> Create Folders from Cell Contents. See screenshot:

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Usage:

1. Select the range which contains the cell values you want to use for creating folders.

2. Click -1 button to specify a certain directory that you want to put the folders in. Then click Ok. See screenshots:

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3. And go to the folder, you will see the folders have been created. See screenshot:

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Demo: Quickly create folders based on cell values in Excel

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    Graham · 3 years ago
    Just been using the create folder option but as with your example it creates the folders in alphabetical order in windows 10 and not as listed in excel. Is this a windows issue or something I can edit in the cells?