Do you often have to print a lot of emails or attachments working with Outlook? Wouldn’t that be easier if you had a specific, but perfectly integrated tool for it?
Check out this brief overview of the capabilities offered. This concise and efficient toolset by MAPILab is an easy way to boost your printing productivity! “Please consider the environment before printing this email.” If you have already considered, and you’re absolutely sure you need to print this message or its attachment — as well as another dozen or two from today’s mail flow – you could probably do with a special tool for it.
Jun 19, 2011 Imagine the following scenario: You have a couple of thousand emails, each containing a pdf file and you have to print all of them. Nightmare, I know.
In this short post you will learn how to use an Outlook add-in by MAPILab called Print Tools for Outlook. Upon installation, you will find the add-in under MAPILab Tab on the Ribbon, among other MAPILab tools if you already have some. The dropdown menu features a few commands, which are applied to one or more selected items in the viewed folder, and shortcuts to settings. The add-in is implemented as a wizard which makes it a no-failure, user-friendly solution. The wizard couldn’t be any simpler – in fact, it’s a single window where you can indicate whether you want to print one item, the entire folder or items received within a certain time frame. You can also choose whether you need to print attached documents, messages, or both, and specify the outlay (table or separate items). Furthermore, the add-in is customizable in terms of options you would like to be displayed in the menu, which makes its laconic interface even more concise.
That is to say, if you only print attachments, you can uncheck all the other boxes in the Print Tools settings, turning the add-in into an almost invisible one-button shortcut to the feature you need most. In this menu you can also specify the printer you plan to use.
Besides, if you have to monitor certain folders and print documents as soon as they are delivered there, the toolset could help you out with its Folders Watch feature, which enables automatically printing of new messages (or attachments, or both) from designated folders. To choose the folder, or a few folders, click on Folders Watch in the add-in’s dropdown menu.
When you’ve located the folder and highlighted it, click on settings. In the setting you will find a number of automatic printing options that can help you avoid accidental printing of irrelevant items. Thus, if you’re interested in printing PDF invoices that arrive to a certain folder from your partners, you can specify the exact file type.
Combined with a few Outlook rules, this automatic printing tool can work miracles in terms of reducing your workload. And finally, you will be pleased to know the add-in is so well integrated that you will find all the necessary options in the dropdown menu after right-clicking on an item in the folder. All in all, printing emails and attachments is not a big deal, until you have to print them in dozens, in which case a specialized tool comes really handy., an add-in by MAPILab, is concise and simple, offering just enough features to boost your Outlook productivity without complicating your routine.
Printing one by one email attachment from Outlook is a bit time consuming method when a user requires a lot of emails to save and print. So in this article I will explore how to batch print PDF attachments in Outlook 2010, 2007 or any other edition by using a VBA macro. You can use this method easily if you are comfortable with VBA (macro) programming. A few technical skills are required to print multiple PDF attachments using VBA script as shown below. Creating Macros in Visual Basic!
VBA is a programing language by using which we can create macros that allows performing tasks automatically. Just follow given below instructions to open VBA in Outlook and create macros:s. Go to ' Devepoler' tab from the menu bar and click on ' Visual Basic' or (Press Alt+F11). You will see the VBA editor like this.
Now press right click on project name and create a new module. Once the new module is created, copy and paste the below codes Note: Acrobat reader should be installed on C drive if it is installed on another drive then you need to change the code to match the path on your system.
Now save the new created module and save the VBA editor. Above suggested steps are enough to set up a VBA Macro to print multiple PDF attachments in outlook 2007, 2010 or any other editions. ﾃつ xA0We are printing all attachments from PDF files so we use Acrobat acrord32.exe to print every attachment.
Using the Macro to Batch Print PDF Attachments in Outlook We have created a macro using VBA script, now we can compile the program whenever we need to print multiple PDF attachments in Outlook. To run the new created Macro you just need to follow the steps:. Go to Devepoler tab from the menu bar Click on Micros Click again Micros. Now you will get a list of Micros created by you.
Free Batch Print Pdf
Select recent one and then press the run button. Note: All the prints are sent to your default printer so you have to confirm a valid printer driver is installed and selected. Conclusion: I hope the method to batch print PDF attachments in Outlook will clearly work for you. You can share your feedbacks and suggestions through comment.