Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

Just to be clear at my end can you explain what ( wbas ) is 

and what you are trying that isn't working .

and what versions of windows and excel are you running.

This info is needed to better help you .

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Thanks LightStar! That's it exactly.

I use Excel because I also grade them both with Wincustomize and my own grades. I also have a column for Win Version supported, etc. Lot's lots of data points.

I guess there is a way to make Word (but not Notepad) do that with "Tables", but Excel makes it soooo easy.

BTW, guess who's Blinds fill the Top Tier?!?!?!?   

I am going to sound like I don't like Windowblinds/Stardock but that is NOT the case. Been a loyal customer since pretty near Day One!

It just seems those folks had an incredible concept that has keep them afloat for many years. They just don't seem to care a whit about ease of use and flexibility. All of the operations that configure, extend, coordinate the Windowblinds program are stilted, confusing, and down right clunky. And, DON'T GET ME STARTED about documentation!!!

Anywhoooooo.... still hoping someone has a trick to get names out off Windowblinds easily...cuz Stardock sure doesn't.... that I can see.

Am I off the mark here John? 

You could use the Command Prompt to print the WB skins directory to a text file if you like.  Use the fixed column option in Excel when importing.  You'd have to clean it up (delete some unwanted listings) but shouldn't be too difficult.  Creates a text file named "WBList.txt" in the WindowBlinds directory:

c:

cd c:\users\public\documents\stardock\windowblinds

dir >WBList.txt

Output of Reply 6.  A little sorting and deleting and you're good to go.:

That's a really handy little trick to know.  You can also use the /s and /b switches (dir /s  /b >Filename.txt) to get the lists of files within subdirectories - which you certainly do not want to do here.  That's great for music listings for example, if you have an annoying tendency to remember song titles but forget who did them.  It's a different output layout but you can still sort through it pretty easily.

Are you still using Foobar?  You can configure its library to pull/sort by title, if that's all you're wanting to do.  At least I think I had to build it, it was a while ago.

Ah, good.  I thought "No, he's not going through all that when we could just copy/paste a line or two here."