batch printing word documents

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Michel Bintener

First of all, you will need to create a desktop printer, i.e. a shortcut for
your printer which sits on your desktop. Look it up in Mac Help, accessible
from the Finder's help menu; I can't give you any details since the method
to do that varies quite a lot depending on your operating system (though it
is surprisingly easy and intuitive in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard). Once you've
created a desktop printer, simply drag all the Word documents you intend to
print onto the desktop printer icon.


Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to batch print word documents?
Thanks.
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Michel Bintener
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Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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R

r2xman

thanks for your reply.

Knew about that already. The trouble with this is, for each document,
it opens (in turn), a print dialog box, and requires a click on
"enter" . This is not what I'm looking for. What I would like to do is
just print a whole batch of documents at once (hence the word,
"batch") without having to wait for each print dialog to pop up, click
enter, wait, click, wait, click, wait.
 
M

Michel Bintener

thanks for your reply.

Knew about that already. The trouble with this is, for each document,
it opens (in turn), a print dialog box, and requires a click on
"enter" . This is not what I'm looking for. What I would like to do is
just print a whole batch of documents at once (hence the word,
"batch") without having to wait for each print dialog to pop up, click
enter, wait, click, wait, click, wait.
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I suppose it might be possible to bypass the printer confirmation dialogue
through AppleScript or VBA; stick around, and maybe someone who knows for
sure will show up and help you.

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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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Jim Gordon MVP

Hi,

A visual basic macro could loop through all the files in a given folder and
print each one without displaying the print dialog box.

Would this be helpful?

-Jim


thanks for your reply.

Knew about that already. The trouble with this is, for each document,
it opens (in turn), a print dialog box, and requires a click on
"enter" . This is not what I'm looking for. What I would like to do is
just print a whole batch of documents at once (hence the word,
"batch") without having to wait for each print dialog to pop up, click
enter, wait, click, wait, click, wait.
Click to expand...

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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