Printing Documents in a Folder

Have you collected a bunch of documents in a folder, and you want to print all the documents? There are a couple of quick and easy ways you can do this. The first method involves the use of Windows, not Word. Follow these general steps:

1. Display the folder that contains all the documents you want to print.
2. Create a selection set of the documents you want to print. (Select them all, using Ctrl and Shift to help put the selection set together.)
3. Right-click on one of the selected documents. Windows displays a Context menu.
4. Choose Print from the Context menu.

Word is automatically started and each document is printed, in turn. You can also apply a variation on this approach:

1. In Word, display the Open dialog box.
2. Using the controls in the dialog box, display the folder that contains the documents you want to print.
3. Create a selection set of the documents you want to print.
4. Right-click any of the selected documents and choose Print from the resulting Context menu.

If you prefer a macro approach to printing the documents, there are many different ways you can implement the macro. One example can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, at this URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306346