My Documents, organizing saved word documents into folders ?? do I ??

Question

As I create word documents, I have not always put them into folders when I hit save. Now I want to go back and move every saved document I've typed into a folder to organize them. What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? Do I have to do it one at a time, or can I go somewhere, somehow and move all of the "cooking" ones to the cooking folder at once. I have Microsoft WORKS ..... and windows XP

the first answer says "just move them" how, ?? select and cut and paste more than one at a time, pretend you are teaching a child how !!

OK, I did it, thanks

Answer 1

the easiest thing to do is to open the my documents folder and create the subfolders that you wish and then just move the documents into their appropriate folder

Answer 2

You can use the search function in XP to find all documents that match a particular phrase, and then drag and drop them all into a folder.

This is a quick rundown on the process:
Click the start button,
Click search
Click in the What do you want to search area: documents
Click advanced search options
type something like "cooking" in word or phrase box
click search
Once you get all the results, highlight them all and drag and drop them into an appropriate folder. you need to create the new folder before you drag and drop the files into it.

Answer 3

Unfortunately there isn't a magical way to do what you want. Closest thing is to create a folder in the same location the files exist and drag em over. You can hold 'ctrl' and left mouse click to highlight and drag multiple files.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Try by the files extensions (.doc)(last three (3) letters or numbers after the dot), that usually works for me. Use (2) two open windows and the cut n paste method of doing things.
Ctrl C - For copying
Ctrl V - For pasting.

For Works: .wpd
For Word: .doc, .rtf
For PowerPoint: .pps
(Template) .ppt

Nice to know what OS you're using, but isn't needed in this case.
You get the idea.