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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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-27T19:45:23+00:00

    In theory, however, Word can become confused by its own dialog boxes.  This looks like a race condition, but what happens is, after dragging, dropping and clicking "yes" to the print-many dialog, a cascade of dialogs, one for each file being attempted, opens complaining that a previous dialog must first be closed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-18T08:01:23+00:00

    Thank you for the simple yet effective way you suggested.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-18T09:03:40+00:00

    To get the "Print" right-click option back, open Adobe Reader, Edit, Preferences, click "Select Default PDF Handler", select your version of Adobe Reader, Apply, OK. You may have to restart. Not my own discovery, got it from some clever person on another forum.

    My problem is that when I select say 10 pdf files and right-click print, not all of them print, there are always at least one or two that don't - very annoying. Anyone got any ideas on this?

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