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Printing All Open Documents

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 22, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021

Periodically you may be working with multiple documents on the screen at the same time, and you want to print them all. It can be cumbersome, at best, to manually switch between documents and then choosing to print each one. The following macro allows you to print all open documents:

Sub PrintAllDocuments
    ' Step through the open document windows
    For Each Doc In Documents
        Doc.PrintOut
    Next Doc
End Sub

This macro prints the documents to the default printer.

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WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (5919) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Printing All Open Documents.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen...

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2025-01-15 22:55:18

Matthew W. I. Dunn

This is fantastic! Thanks so much!

2018-12-22 10:42:10

DougB

Note, you need to first dim 'doc' as a document object if you are using Option Explicit.
(Dim doc as Document)

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