Mass renaming Word 2003 documents based on 'Title'

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I have recently had to recover about 200MB's worth of data off a USB pen drive at work using Easy Recovery. However, the filenames are not retained during the process, and instead are simply numbered sequentially.

I'm thinking along the lines of a VBscript which reads the 'title' information for each document and renames the file accordingly.

Any idea's would be much appreciated.
 
I'm assuming you know the original names. Use Bulk Rename Utility BRU.
I had something similar last week with podcasts being numerically ordered and I wanted to know what each podcast contained so I bulk renamed them.
BRU will let you bulk rename using a text file with the old file name and the new file name separated by the "|" pipe character. Its a really good tool for replacing characters or putting uppercase initials in etc.

OldFileName.doc|NewFileName.doc
 
Thanks, however what I'm looking for is to be able to rename the file based on the Title of the document in the Summary tab in Windows.
 
Sorry, I did realise after I posted. Not many metadata apps I know of but quick Google showed this.
Even if it could only export the title for you, you could then use BRU to the rest.
 
I was able to rename the files using BatchRename Pro in the end, as the application supports the feature of using the Title as the filename.

Thanks anyway.
 
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