Sample macro to print all Word documents found in a folder (306346)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Word 2003
  • Microsoft Word 2002
This article was previously published under Q306346
For a Microsoft Word 2000 version of this article, see 201993.
For a Microsoft Word 98 version of this article, see 183867.
For a Microsoft Word 97 version of this article, see 180513.

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications routine (macro) that can be used to print all Microsoft Word documents that are found in the specified folder.

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The following sample macro prints all Word documents that are found in the specified folder. 
Sub ListDocNamesInFolder()
   Dim sMyDir As String
   Dim sDocName As String
   ' The path to obtain the files.
   sMyDir = "C:\My Documents\"
   sDocName = Dir(sMyDir & "*.DOC")
   While sDocName <> ""
      ' Print the file.
      Application.PrintOut FileName: = sMyDir & sDocName
      ' Get next file name.
      sDocName = Dir()
   Wend
End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

290140 How to run the sample code for the Office XP programs from Knowledge Base articles

For more information about how to get help with Visual Basic for Applications, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

305326 List of programming resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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