Macro Intro
This Word macro allows you to print a Word Document with one click. The Word Auto Print macro is designed to be called off your Outlook Calendar using the Calendar Reminder Macros. Leveraging your Outlook Calendar, you can schedule Word Documents to automatically print reoccurring monthly, weekly, whenever you need! Printing is only delayed by a Message Box ensuring that you are available to pick up the printout. (This Message Box can be suppressed see Customization section below) Don’t let printing a meeting agenda delay valuable collaboration time instead schedule for it to happen automatically on your Outlook Calendar!See it in Action
Watch this video to see this macro in action.Code
Here is the code for this macro. Make sure the following References are setup before running it: Visual Basic For Applications, Microsoft Word 16.0 Object Library
Customization
These segments of code can be customized to personalize this macro.
MsgBox ("Pick up the document " & ActiveDocument.Name & " at the Printer.") 'Delay Printing until OK
By Default the Word Auto Print Macro will display a MsgBox awaiting your approval to submit the Word Document to be printed. If you would like the printing to occur immediately upon the Word Auto Print macro running then remove this MsgBox.
By Default this Word Auto Print Macro will keep the Word Document being printed open. If desired you can make this code line active to close the document upon being printed.
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The Developer Tab is an additional section of the ribbon when activated allows you access to Visual Basic in Applications like Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word.
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Once the Developer Tab is available you will have the capability to update your security to allow Macros to run in the current application.
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A sub of code is a collection of objects and variables. For the code to successfully run a library of references needs to be set.
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