flag a word doc folder

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barbara

flag or ???? a word doc folder. I need to determine 7000 different part
number files in a folder that are more or less a manufacturing problem. I
need to open the problem part folder more often than other file folder. I use
a part numbers for file folders I have 7000 files in 1 folder. I need to know
which part numbers that have problems. Instead of remembering these numbers.
Like a color for bad parts,problem parts that are still in 1 folder. I cannot
breakup the files they must say in 1 folder with 1 file name to be accessed
by employees.

I hope I tried to explain my self ok.

Thanks,
 
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Rick B

I'm not sure what you are asking. You have Word documents in a folder and
you want to somehow color code some of them?

This does not sound like a question for this newsgroup. This newsgroup is
for help creating code on forms using a Microsoft Access database. If you
are using Access, then you would need to explain the structure of your
tables and which fields you are trying to look at for your selections.
 
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barbara

rick, i use word and have a folder with 7000 files in that folder. I neeed
someway to code the some folders that are a problem so I can easily reference
back to them when I open that folder. Thanks for your help,
barbara
 
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John Nurick

Hi Barbara,

There's no way of flagging the actual files in the folder. This
newsgroup is for Microsoft Access database software. Did you post here
because you want to create a database in which you can track the
problems?

If not, how about using Excel to store a list of the files that you can
colour-code and sort? To create the list,

1) Open the Windows command prompt
2) Use the CD command to navigate to the folder containing your 7000
files.
3) Use this command to create a text file with the list of Word
documents:
DIR /B *.DOC > FileList.txt
4) Close the command prompt window.
5) Launch Excel and open the file you created, then save it as an
ordinary Excel workbook.
 
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