Print a tree from Windows Explorer

[Solola]

I'm wondering if it's possible to print the file tree out of Windows Explorer. I've found a software or two that I can purchase to do this for me, but it seems odd that Windows wouldn't have that functionality already built in. Any suggestions?

 

[TrippyTom]

Well, if you wanted to do it in Excel, I guess you could "simulate" a tree with Arial characters.

1. Open Character Map in Windows. (under Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map)
2. Scroll down about 3/4 of the way and you will see the characters that you can use to show a tree: Code 2514 is the sideways T character, Code 251C is the L character and the other one is the normal pipe character.

With these characters you could form a tree. I did it as a test in Excel, but the worksheet copier didn't properly format it right.

book1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
1	C:
2	+	1st level				Font = ARIAL
3	|	+	1.A.			+ = Alt code 2514
4	|	|	+	1.A.1		| = normal pipe character
5	|	|	|	1.A.2		+ = Alt code 251C
6	|	|	+	1.A.3
7	|	|	1.B.
8	|	+	1.C.
9	+	2nd level
10	|	+	2.A.
11	|	+	2.B.
12	+	3rd level
13	+	4th level
Sheet1

Anyway, you would still need to write code to figure out the levels of each file and path. This seems a bit too complicated and re-inventing the wheel. I'd just buy one that's available that has a much nicer graphical display.

 

[Richard Schollar]

This doesn't do exactly what you want, but I do find it useful for extracting file and subdirectory lists:

RJHExtensions

Hope this proves of interest!

Richard