Word: Print Multiple Files At Once
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Microsoft Word In word it is easy to print several files at once without loading them first.
Word makes it easy to print several files at once. The user does not even need to open them first.
(This sends the files straight to the printer without allowing you to adjust your printer settings.)
1. Click the File Menu
2. Select Open
3. After the open window displays, select the files you wish to print.
4. Right click on one of the selected files to open the context menu
5. Left click Print from the context menu.
This is perfect when your boss wants last month’s reports printed NOW!
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johan said on February 28, 2009
This is no longer there in Vista with Office 2007 :(
tratra said on March 18, 2009
yes it is there…
R. Wheeler said on March 31, 2009
Bullshit. This does not work using Vista/Office 2007 all I get is “a dialog box is open” message 50 times, then a “save as” xps file message 50 times and nothing prints. MS Help is standard crap and does not address. I have to do each file one at a time. Cannot select from explorer, as the same thing happens. If this is operator error, someone please enlighten me. If this is a function of vista and word, then Word sucks. Use Adobe.
anonymous said on September 9, 2009
No, I need to collate the docs which means having the printer properties box open. So this doesn’t help. BTW, the Master Documents won’t work with multiple tabled pages eiether.
Anonymous said on January 26, 2010
This works great in Word 2003. I use it to print 50 to 100 document without lifting a finger. This function does not work well in 2007 for .doc file, it totaly ignores those files. Can anyone help me with this.
Anonymous said on January 30, 2010
the is no “OPEN” under file when you click on file! This is NO help! Wrong information!!
Anonymous said on March 4, 2010
people people people! tssk tssk! relax! take a deep breath and follow these steps:
for Word 2007 :
1) before starting, go to Start Menu, Settings, Printers and right-click on the desired printer and choose as default printer
2) open Word program (no need to open a doc file, a blank file is fine)
3) click on the Office Button (top left circle with Office logo)
4) click on Open (a little window will pop up)
5) go to the folder or wherever the Word files are and select them all
6) at the bottom left corner of the Open window, click on Tools button
7) click on Print
and voilà! all the selected files will print without having Word opening them all!
you are welcome!
Diana said on June 11, 2010
Hi Johnmackall, Your explanation was great and I have been using this method for some time however I find that when I use it all my documents print in random order. I would really like them to print them in filename order (the way they appear sorted in my directory). Any thoughts on how I might be able to acheive this? Thanks, Diana.
Kari said on March 3, 2011
I just found that i can drag files from a folder on my computer to the window with the print jobs for the printer in my office, and they print. Nice!
Shanan said on April 6, 2011
I’m having the same issue as Diana. Has anyone got a solution?
Amjad_6116 said on May 24, 2011
I have a problem when I’m trying to print through right-click then print….the folder open and the print window opens…whenever I press on print…nothing happens……any solutions
Amjad_6116 said on May 24, 2011
and that only happenes for word………every other files…excel or pdf…..prints fine using the same method
Fed Up with MS OFFICE said on September 22, 2011
Fed up and found a way to do this:
* open the printer dialog box
* open folder with documents
* select the documents, and drag to the printer dialog box
Yes, word will open every one, but you can walk away and do work while they print.
Thank You MS for making this SOOOOOO easy to do…hell with the right click method we use to do…it’s much more efficient to open the printer window today. /sarcasm