KB201993 - WD2000: Sample Macro to Print All Word Documents Found in a Folder

Article ID: 201993

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q201993

SUMMARY

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

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The following sample macro prints all Word documents 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: = sDocName
      ' Get next file name.
      sDocName = Dir()
   Wend
End Sub

For more information about Dir function, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type Dir function in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.
For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: 226118
TITLE : OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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