Single Point Printing

[marcmeier]

Hi

I'm running Office XP Pro under Windows 2000 Pro.

I have several documents (Excel, Word, PDF) that are subject-grouped. What
I'd like to be able to do is to print all of these out by pressing a single
command button.

I've tried embedding or linking them in an Excel spreadsheet, but it doesn't
work for me.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Please excuse my ignorance but what is single-grouped?

 

[marcmeier]

Hi JoAnne

You're not ignorant- I wasn't too happy with my wording either.

What I meant was that the various documents are subject-related and should
therefore be used as a group.

Hope that clarifies things.

Thanks

Please excuse my ignorance but what is single-grouped?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Hi

I'm running Office XP Pro under Windows 2000 Pro.

I have several documents (Excel, Word, PDF) that are subject-grouped.
What
I'd like to be able to do is to print all of these out by pressing a
single
command button.

I've tried embedding or linking them in an Excel spreadsheet, but it
doesn't
work for me.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[ANONYMOUS]

If they are all in one place then print them [all] from Windows
Explorer.

To do this, launch Windows Explorer, highlight the documents, then go to
File, Print.

hth

 

[marcmeier]

Anonymous

Thanks.

I had thought of that, but I want to make things simple for the
computer-unfamiliar.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to open a document that has a "Select the
document set to print" statement and then a whole list of various document
sets.

The user would then press the relevant button/link and get a print out of
all the relevant documents.

If I go a multiple folder and sub-folder route in Win Explorer, it risks
creating confusion, let alone errors.

Cheers

If they are all in one place then print them [all] from Windows
Explorer.

To do this, launch Windows Explorer, highlight the documents, then go to
File, Print.

hth

Hi

I'm running Office XP Pro under Windows 2000 Pro.

I have several documents (Excel, Word, PDF) that are subject-grouped. What
I'd like to be able to do is to print all of these out by pressing a single
command button.

I've tried embedding or linking them in an Excel spreadsheet, but it doesn't
work for me.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[marcmeier]

Bob

Thanks.

I've tried a macro in Excel on some test files. The first was an Excel
file, which opened, printed and closed OK. The macro then opened the next
file (a Word one) and that's as far as it got. I looked at the macro's code
and tried a few things, but I simply don't know enough to code the macro
properly.

Cheers

In a word, Macro.

Anonymous

Thanks.

I had thought of that, but I want to make things simple for the
computer-unfamiliar.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to open a document that has a "Select the
document set to print" statement and then a whole list of various document
sets.

The user would then press the relevant button/link and get a print out of
all the relevant documents.

If I go a multiple folder and sub-folder route in Win Explorer, it risks
creating confusion, let alone errors.

Cheers

:

If they are all in one place then print them [all] from Windows
Explorer.

To do this, launch Windows Explorer, highlight the documents, then go to
File, Print.

hth


marcmeier wrote:

Hi

I'm running Office XP Pro under Windows 2000 Pro.

I have several documents (Excel, Word, PDF) that are subject-grouped. What
I'd like to be able to do is to print all of these out by pressing a single
command button.

I've tried embedding or linking them in an Excel spreadsheet, but it doesn't
work for me.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[Bob I]

Yes, in review, Office macro will be problematic with mixed file types.
and Adobe isn't even part of Office. Without using scripting and
learning how it works that isn't going to happen the way you envision.

Bob

Thanks.

I've tried a macro in Excel on some test files. The first was an Excel
file, which opened, printed and closed OK. The macro then opened the next
file (a Word one) and that's as far as it got. I looked at the macro's code
and tried a few things, but I simply don't know enough to code the macro
properly.

Cheers

:

In a word, Macro.

marcmeier wrote:

Anonymous

Thanks.

I had thought of that, but I want to make things simple for the
computer-unfamiliar.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to open a document that has a "Select the
document set to print" statement and then a whole list of various document
sets.

The user would then press the relevant button/link and get a print out of
all the relevant documents.

If I go a multiple folder and sub-folder route in Win Explorer, it risks
creating confusion, let alone errors.

Cheers

:



If they are all in one place then print them [all] from Windows
Explorer.

To do this, launch Windows Explorer, highlight the documents, then go to
File, Print.

hth


marcmeier wrote:


Hi

I'm running Office XP Pro under Windows 2000 Pro.

I have several documents (Excel, Word, PDF) that are subject-grouped. What
I'd like to be able to do is to print all of these out by pressing a single
command button.

I've tried embedding or linking them in an Excel spreadsheet, but it doesn't
work for me.

Any suggestions?

Cheers