Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: 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:
Word is automatically started and each document is printed, in turn. You can also apply a variation on this approach:
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/kb/306346
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2015-05-11 11:16:58
Dick Richardson
Thanks for interesting article. If I need to print a lot of documents in one folder, I use a utility Print Conductor (http://www.print-conductor.com/solutions/print-list-of-documents.html). This utility supports all known printer types and 26 types of files.
2015-05-11 10:30:36
Greg Melvill
Nice tips. thanks
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