printing file without opening

In previous versions of windows I could high lite a group of files, right
click and choose print.

Windows would open all the files one at a time and print.

It seems in Vista I no longer have that option.

I need to print , for example, 45 single page word files and to do it , I
had to copy them to an XP machine and print from there.

Does Vista not allow printing of an unopened file ?

thanks

If all the documents are the same type the option will be available. So
print in groups by file type. Please note that *.doc and *.docx are
different types so you can't have both these file types in your highlighted
list - do all *.doc files then do all *.docx files.


"Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:393A9161-B902-428A-B28B-84C6A7AFBA83@microsoft.com...
> In previous versions of windows I could high lite a group of files, right
> click and choose print.
>
> Windows would open all the files one at a time and print.
>
> It seems in Vista I no longer have that option.
>
> I need to print , for example, 45 single page word files and to do it , I
> had to copy them to an XP machine and print from there.
>
> Does Vista not allow printing of an unopened file ?
>
> thanks

It seems the "doc" folders when right clicked do not show "print" as an
option. If tried with "rtf" or adobe files the print command is present .

All files originated on a previos XP computer, mostly created with word 2003.

"Castell" wrote:

> If all the documents are the same type the option will be available. So
> print in groups by file type. Please note that *.doc and *.docx are
> different types so you can't have both these file types in your highlighted
> list - do all *.doc files then do all *.docx files.
>
>
> "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:393A9161-B902-428A-B28B-84C6A7AFBA83@microsoft.com...
> > In previous versions of windows I could high lite a group of files, right
> > click and choose print.
> >
> > Windows would open all the files one at a time and print.
> >
> > It seems in Vista I no longer have that option.
> >
> > I need to print , for example, 45 single page word files and to do it , I
> > had to copy them to an XP machine and print from there.
> >
> > Does Vista not allow printing of an unopened file ?
> >
> > thanks
>