batch printing word documents

[r2xman]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to batch print word documents?
Thanks.

 

[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.

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

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[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.

 

[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.

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.

--
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.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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