How to print all the files in a folder without opening each one?

Anonymous
2010-05-27T11:35:36+00:00

Hi there,

Can anyone tell me how to print all files contained within a folder? I often need to print many files contained within a folder and this would save me a great deal of time!

Thanks!

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Anonymous
2010-05-31T19:37:47+00:00

I've done some testing, and it appears that Windows 7 only allows printing multiple files when they're all the same file type.  So, for example, you can select and print 15 Word documents, but not one Word document and one PDF document.

To work around this limitation, you can print each file type separately.  For example, to print the PDF files in a folder:

  1. Type *.PDF in the Search box at the upper right.
  2. For 1-15 files, press CTRL+A to select all of them.
  3. For 16 or more files, select 15 of them (click the first, SHIFT +click the last).
  4. Right-click any file and click Print .
  5. Repeat steps 3-4 as required.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-26T15:39:16+00:00

    Hi everybody,

    I have comment to add. There may be alternatives and 3rd party solutions. But the situation is that for a lot of us, we can do what is describe with word and excel files but not with pdf. I just to work in the past but it has disappeared. It was a very nice feature. Now who is to blame? I mean it disappeared due to Microsoft change something or due to Adobe removed or change something.

    If some one finds some tweaks to do and get back this feature it would be wonderful.

    Tks

    heii everyone,

    u people can print the multiple files by winzip.

    step1: zip all the files that you need to print.

    step2:open the zip folder

    ste3:selct all the files in the zip folder

    step4:right click on the selected files

    step5:you can see the print option and click on it.

    I hope it will be useful.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-08T21:22:51+00:00

    Finally the right answer without having to download something.  I used to be able to do this and for some reason it stopped working.  Thanks for this simple solution.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-28T08:15:47+00:00

    thanks a lot steve for your valuable information.

    regards

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