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Have you collected a bunch of documents in a folder, and you want to print all the documents? There are a couple of quick and easy ways you can do this. The first method involves the use of Windows, not Word. Follow these general steps:
Word is automatically started and each document is printed, in turn. There are a couple of caveats to this approach. First, if you are using Windows 7 or Windows 10 you must make sure that you are only trying to print files of like type. As long as all the files are Word documents, you should have no problems. Secondly, you can only print up to 15 documents at a time in this manner.
You can also apply a variation on this approach:
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2018-07-02 14:32:46
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So I have used this method many times in the past. But I have noticed that it does not always print them in the order that they are in the folder. Do others find this to be true for them?
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: 
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