How to rename multiple files at once using Excel (Windows) 

no ads, straight to the point, clear instructions, no unnecessary music and no asking to subscribe. YOU ARE AMAZING!! Thanks!!!!!

I thought I was going to have to spend hours renaming 2000 files and this literally saved my life. THANK YOU!

Absolutely fantastic!!! So easy to follow, so well explained and so incredibly much time saved. Thank you so, so much, this is truly one of the best videos that ever existed

To say that this has increased my productivity by ten times fold is an understatement. This is perfect!!! and Thank you Karina A.

What a bloody legend mate, cheers!

I looked up 6 different web guides on renaming files and didn't find what I needed... this is exactly it. You saved me hours and hours of work, thanks so much!

This is far one of the best videos about how to rename multiple files at once. The possibility to use excel unlocks so many other things like logical ways to set file names and them use it in file names. That's awesome. Thanks a lot

You are my hero! I work in an Accounts Payable position and this will be a massive time saver for splitting & renaming large statements. I just shared it with my team too. Thank you so much for posting this and making it so easy to follow along and learn.

Straight to the point with clear instructions. Thats how a YT tutorial should be...THANK YOU so much..

This has been an extremely helpful tutorial and opened a lot of possibilities on what I thought would be a very tedious process, thank you very much! Short and to the point with good visuals.

This video has been absolutely vital to me and my team as we needed to rename hundreds of glossary terms, this has saved us and our business hours of droll work! Thankyou so much for this!!!

Thank You, Thank You. I had hundreds of files that needed renaming, and thought “There’s got to be an App that does this.” And then lo and behold, I tripped over your RU-vid video that showed I already “had” the App with Windows and Excel! Your super clear instructions were a wonder, and I got the files renamed as if by magic. I, of course, saved the spreadsheet, and have already reused it as a template for other lists of files. Cut, Paste, doublecheck, and Done! THANK YOU!

please give this woman a nobel prize for renaming files.

Best tech video I've ever seen. It is easy to follow, easy to set it up, and the Excel template that gets created, can be re-used over and over effortlessly. Thank You so much

OMG!!! I love you :) was able to rename 500 files at once. Can't believe how easy and time saving it is

Youre a lethal badass, Karina! Cutting straight through with 100% killer and no filler. I truly appreciate your clear and succinct style. So very well done!!!

I've just renamed four thousand music files that had numbers and hyphens in front of the file names, now my iPod can play them, Thanks

I just used this workflow to rename 2000 photos that were incorrectly renamed during an import into Lightroom that crashed half way through. This workflow has literally saved me days of work. Thanks so much Karina!

Renaming several hundred wav files for the sake of changing two numbers in the file name was no fun at all. THIS has been a brilliant time saver. Thank you SOOO MUCH Karina for your fantastic help 👍👍👍👍

I was banging my head against the wall trying to write a script to do this. Thank you!

I have been asking my colleagues for months on how to do this, and finally while burning the midnight oil I found the answer. Thank you

Great video! I changed it up a little by using concatenate in the last part to just include ren and spaces as part of the formula instead of dedicating columns to those elements. So useful!

10/10 quality tutorial. Well explained and paced as well. Thank you so much for this

I have tried every file renamer in the book - without success. So, after spending hours today and weeks and months before trying to find how to completely rename each one of a long list of files in a file directory it has taken this wonderful lady Brit to come up with the answer - and so briefly and succinctly, too! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Oh! and plus the =A2&B2&C2 - which is so much quicker than concat)!

Wow, using Excel as a means to generate large amounts of individual CMD prompts is a genius idea. Thank you!

Amazing video! So well explained and really easy to follow. One of the best videos I’ve ever watched as it impacted my work life so much!

Wow. Way easier than writing some VB. Thank you, Karina! You rock. I probably should have remembered that the command prompt could do that

Not only has this tutorial saved loads of productivity time, it has also probably saved even many hours of just learning the trick somehow else

thanks you just saved me from manually changing 1000 file names

exactly what I was looking for, straight to the point, no BS, thumbs up and subscribed!

Outstanding delivery/explanation. So simple. I went through half a dozen videos where the speaker just jumpes into the steps without explaining the reasoning. Great job!!😊

Bravo. Just had to change the name of each file in 40 different folders. Took me about an hour, which is peanuts compared to doing it manually. It's one of the best tricks.

You have no idea how much this trick means to me!!! I appreciate your help with this video a lot, Karina!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! Spent hours figuring out how to rename my files and I am so thankful to found your tutorial. Thanks for sharing this, it is truly helpful!!

Such a great video - best tutorial I’ve ever seen. Very interested to check out the others even though I don’t need them right now. Thank you for making this, Karina!

Just used this and it worked out swimmingly, my girlfriend needed help renaming 3,000 folder names based on an excel file with a corresponding number. I really appreciate it.

You're a diamond! I've seen a few videos teaching this skill, but all required the audience to download some 3rd party software from a sketchy site. So good to see that we can do this with excel and not have to put our computer's security at risk. Thank you so much :)

I am a university student from Thailand. Thank you very much for helping me to solve the task of resolving many variants of file names in a short time after I was stuck on this problem for a long time.

Excellent! Explained in a lucid manner that anyone can easily follow it. Thank you. Much appreciated.

Oh my gosh, this is amazing! I needed to batch rename 125 files that had TWO sequential numbers in them, and wasn't sure if even a batch rename app existed to do this. Despite knowing the ren command, I never would have considered using a spreadsheet to create the commands in bulk! Thank you!

Amazing! This reduced so much of my workload. I now keep the excel at hand, anytime I have to add something to multiple filenames. Thank you!

You know how to teach. Wish I had teachers like you in my school. Thank you.

Saved me from renaming 160 images separately, thank you SO MUCH Karina!

Absolutely fantastic video - saved me and my team several hours!!!!!! Thanks a million.

I would have had to tediously scan and rename each individual file in a folder of 500 chinese-named files for my translation project. But this guaranteed only the exact files got renamed. Thanks so much! Saved me HOURS!

this exactly what i have been looking for all day. thank you

GENIUS!!!!! I've never ever thought to do it this way. Blown away!

Excellent video. straight to the point, clear, and functional. Thank you.

This one video saved me one hour of work. I cannot stress how much I appreciate you!

Thanks a lot, I was struggling to rename almost 100 files, you made it easier.

This was an absolute life-saver! Best way I have seen to do this in a long time.

This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thanks a lot!

You're a godsend! I had 3 folders with 60+ files to rename in each folder. This took a task that would of taken 1/2 day to do down to less than 10 minutes

This is exactly what I needed and so clear, Thank you!

Absolutely fantastic… really help a lot i had multiple folders with 300+ pdf file name to edit blessed to see you video

Hi Karina. Not sure if you are still active on this video but wanted to say a huge thank you for the video. I needed to remame 300+ files and your video helped me to do that so very gratful. Many thanks.

Thank you very much!! You are a life saver. I had to rename 226 files, and your tutorial saved me from long suffer! Thanks again!

Absolutely fantastic!!! So easy to follow. THANK YOU!

You are amazing, thank you so much. Companys need more people like you. Good job!

Amazing, superb, ive just done this for 2000+ folder with this technique and it works, thanks for saving my time

Thank you very much; I looked everywhere for this. Great job and great explanation!!

Thanks a lot for sharing! Absolutely helpful and crystal clear!

Your incredible. I renamed 360+ plus files using this method. Dont know what I would do without you

That is marvelous!! I never knew that renaming multiple files is that easy without coding. I was astonished to see the video. Waiting for more videos like this. I immediately subscribed to your channel.

Incredible!!!! Thank you so much. All the steps were explained very clearly and it was really very helpful. :)

Thank you! This is so easy! Especially for those of us who remember the days of DOS

Unreal job - thanks!

Thank you very much. Straight to the point, nothing more nothing less. Impressive.

ABSOLUTELY UNREAL THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS SAVED MY DAY

OHMYGOD!!! You just saved me HOURS of tidious work! So well explained! Thank you so so much!!

Karina, thank you! Fantastic tutorial!! You saved me hours of work!

My first time commenting on a RU-vid video. This really helped me. Thank you!

Absolutely brilliant - thank you so much for taking the time to share

10/10 tutorial, straight to the point!

I can't thank you enough, WOW. Amazing things I learned in this video not only renaming. God Bless You.

😍OMG you saved me like 4 hours of work!!!

This video was excellent - really clear, worked first time. Thank you!

Wow! just WOW! You are my HERO! I love organizing my files so I usually rename them (especially downloaded files with so many extra characters) so it will be neat and consistent. Though my fingers are fast on keyboard, renaming hundreds of files is still tedious. I finally decided to search whether bulk renaming is possible without using 3rd party apps. This really saved my day! This is so amazing! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I found this just incredibly useful. Just superb. Thank you Karina. I can't remember when I was as excited! Perhaps it was in 1989 when I heard 'When You Come Back To Me' by Jason Donovan for the first time. Or maybe even further back and 'Souvenir' by OMD! :0)

I used this trick at my internship, and it got me good praises!

Thank you!! I cannot express how much this helps me. Really, thanks.

Thank you! So simple and efficient!

Best tutorial regarding this topic so far

Awesome tutorial... the best yet. Thank you!

So simple yet so useful. Amazing! Thank you.

Absolutely fantastic video. Straight to the point and very helpful.

Wow!!! Fantastic!! I wish I found this trick out years and years ago. I would have saved countless hours renaming files.

Still using this - just brilliant :) Many thanks

Extremely helpful. Thank you!

Perfect!! Thank you for this simple and complete tutorial, easy to follow.

Thank you so much for this. I used to do this in PowerAutomate, but I no longer have access to MS. Now I have created an Google Sheets template and doing it this way is even quicker! Thanks again!

This is save my life literally. Thank you in a million.

🙂 This saved me a lot of time. I used this technique for SQL Queries and now also for terminal commands 🙂

What a amazing tutorial, you solved my problem that took me almost 1week time on figure it out, thank you so much

Brilliant tutorial - many thanks - you have solved a huge problem for me :)

Omg! You just gave me back days or weeks of my life back! Thank you!!!

this is very helpful. A task that would have taken me an hour took me a few minutes. THANK YOU

THANK YOU LADY ON RU-vid, YOU JUST SAVED ME, LIKE, A SOLID 2 HOURS

This is so brilliant. And, I used to type the "RENAME" command like 250 to 300 times to rename everything. Gosh, it took the whole morning. This is so much faster just to add author at end.

OMG it worked!! Your a fricken LIFE SAVER! I search a pile of docs and tutes online; written by numpties and got nowhere. Thanks so much for sharing this. xo