Comments on: Word: Print Multiple Files At Once

By: wordpoweruser

wordpoweruser — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:38:32 +0000

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!

By: johnmackall

johnmackall — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:22:22 +0000

the is no “OPEN” under file when you click on file! This is NO help! Wrong information!!

By: tjv1960

tjv1960 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:09:22 +0000

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.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:51:00 +0000

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.

By: R. Wheeler

R. Wheeler — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:14:48 +0000

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.

By: tratra

tratra — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:54:58 +0000

yes it is there…

By: johan

johan — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:18:09 +0000

This is no longer there in Vista with Office 2007 :(

By: Hack_Vista

Hack_Vista — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:02:52 +0000

The original recipe works well.

For example, I just selected several items on my desktop, right clicked on one, and then selected print. It worked for txt, doc, and html files. I didn’t try excel.

By:

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:58:14 +0000

timroberts wrote:

I wanted to clarify lawman’s comment, which helped me today. The option he is talking about is in the File->Open dialog. That dialog contains a Tools menu with a Print option. Don’t look for Print in Tools on the main menu, like I did!

I was able to print multiple documents today from Word 2003 on Windows XP by selecting them in the File->Open dialog and picking Print from the right-click menu. I got the warning mentioned by “Guest” 18 times, but each of the documents did print.

Word needs a way to have a master document that includes/refers to other documents. They have the master document concept, but it only works if you start with it from scratch.

When you are speaking of the option FILE-OPEN DIALOG, is that available when you open Word 2003? When I go to FILE, there is no option for OPEN DIALOG. What if I wanted to print a variety of file types like, PDF, Word, and Excel? Please advise.

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Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:51:53 +0000

I had the issue of not being able to print when right clicking on files in Windows Explorer. When selecting to print, nothing would happen if mulitple files were selected; no error, nothing.

I took the advise of a “Guest” and went to the website on right click responses, downloaded ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html) and figured out it was a bad context menu from installing WS Ftp. Once that was disabled, the printing worked fine.

Thanks for all your help!