Best way to get FILE NAMES from any Folder in Excel

This is one of the easy way to get File Names from your Windows Folder via "Name Manager".

• At first, create a new Excel worksheet.
• Then, select Cell A1.
• Next, go to “Formulas” tab and click “Name Manager” button.
• In the popup dialog box, click “New” button.

• Subsequently, in the next dialog box, input “Files” in “Name” field.
• And change “=Sheet1!$A$1” to “=FILES(Sheet1!$A$1)” in “Refers to:” field.

• Afterwards, click “OK” and close “Name Manager” dialog box.
• Later, copy the Windows folder path in Cell A1 and add “\*” at the end of the path.
• Next, select the Cell A3 and input the function “=INDEX(Files,ROW()-2)”.

At once, a file in this Windows folder will be listed, like the following image.

• Finally, just copy this function down several rows to list the other files until you see the “#REF!” error. The error means that all files have been listed.