In XP Pro (SP2), I sent several jpegs to the Photo Printing Wizard, but the
Wizard seems to have picked its own order in which the print them on the
pages. And it doesn't seem to matter whether I print one per page or
several per page. The order seems to be random.

Is there any way I can force a certain order, or change the order once I see
what the Wizard is displaying?

T. Wise wrote:
> In XP Pro (SP2), I sent several jpegs to the Photo Printing Wizard,
> but the Wizard seems to have picked its own order in which the print
> them on the pages. And it doesn't seem to matter whether I print one
> per page or several per page. The order seems to be random.
>
> Is there any way I can force a certain order, or change the order
> once I see what the Wizard is displaying?
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Maybe numbering the files would help.
Have a look at the following article:

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - Organize Pictures
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-OrganizePictures.html

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Unfortunately, numbering doesn't affect the order in which the Photo
Printing Wizard prints them. And there doesn't seem to be a way to change
the order. Weird.

"John Inzer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> T. Wise wrote:
>> In XP Pro (SP2), I sent several jpegs to the Photo Printing Wizard,
>> but the Wizard seems to have picked its own order in which the print
>> them on the pages. And it doesn't seem to matter whether I print one
>> per page or several per page. The order seems to be random.
>>
>> Is there any way I can force a certain order, or change the order
>> once I see what the Wizard is displaying?
> =============================
> Maybe numbering the files would help.
> Have a look at the following article:
>
> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - Organize Pictures
> http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-OrganizePictures.html
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>

John, I think we tried to solve this problem before, but we never did.
It is the same as when selecting, say 4 pictures to e-mail. You would think
they would be attached in your message by numerical/alphabetical order, but
they never are. However, if placing the 4 pictures inside a new folder and
e-mailing the folder, then they are inserted in the proper order. However,
there is no command to "print this folder's files" like there is "e-mail
this folder's files.
If I remember correctly this was discussed very early after XP was released
and the best we could recommend was to use software offering this type of
print control.


"John Inzer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> T. Wise wrote:
>> In XP Pro (SP2), I sent several jpegs to the Photo Printing Wizard,
>> but the Wizard seems to have picked its own order in which the print
>> them on the pages. And it doesn't seem to matter whether I print one
>> per page or several per page. The order seems to be random.
>>
>> Is there any way I can force a certain order, or change the order
>> once I see what the Wizard is displaying?
> =============================
> Maybe numbering the files would help.
> Have a look at the following article:
>
> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - Organize Pictures
> http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-OrganizePictures.html
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>

Yves Alarie wrote:
> John, I think we tried to solve this problem before, but we never did.
> It is the same as when selecting, say 4 pictures to e-mail. You would
> think they would be attached in your message by
> numerical/alphabetical order, but they never are. However, if placing
> the 4 pictures inside a new folder and e-mailing the folder, then
> they are inserted in the proper order. However, there is no command
> to "print this folder's files" like there is "e-mail this folder's
> files. If I remember correctly this was discussed very early after XP was
> released and the best we could recommend was to use software offering
> this type of print control.
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Thanks for the reminder Yves...I did
not recall the previous discussion...

Well, actually I don't even remember
what I had for lunch )

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

[teriak]

I realised that Wizard allways prints the last picture as the first one and then the others in standard (right) order. So if I see it wants to do this, I simply rename the pics so that the original first is as the last one. Then I have them printed in the order I want...