printing of files from my documents folder

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Hi,

I have a large folder in my documents and want to print off a copy of the
all the files in that folder so I have a record of what is in it. It seems
simple enough, but for the life of me I don't know how to do it.

Has anyone got any ideas.

thanks
 
chopinhauer said:
Hi,

I have a large folder in my documents and want to print off a copy of the
all the files in that folder so I have a record of what is in it. It seems
simple enough, but for the life of me I don't know how to do it.

Has anyone got any ideas.

thanks
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Do you have a printer?
You have to Hi-light all first:
Place cursor on first item,
then hold down Ctrl and subsequently click
all/any other listed items you want printed.
Once all are Hi-Lighted gotoFile/Print
 
Thanks for your quikc reply, but I have tried that but it doesn't work,
because when you click file no print option comes up (as it does, for
example, when you are in MS Word).

So I'm still to looking for a way to print off the list of files (or at
least copy the list, without copying the files, to a word document which I
can print out).
 
If I've read your post right, and all you want is a list of files that are
stored in a folder, one way I used was to put the items in detail view and
set up a screen capture.

Not the simplest method but it worked for me,

As far as I know there's no way to do it from within Windows Explorer.

Simon.
 
Sound good, except how do you do a screen capture? And isn't this still all
within windows explorer?
 
Sorry, I didn't explain it very well.
In order to do a screen capture you will need some digital imaging software
such as PaintShopPro or Adobe's PhotoShop. (The documentation supplied with
these will explain how to set up screen captures)
You then open up windows explorer, if you switch to detail view you can
decide which details you want including (Title, Date, Subject, etc.)

Once you have on screen the info you want, use your graphics software to
capture whats on the screen. depending on software you can decide whether its
full screen or drag a box with your mouse and capture whats inside.

The resulting image is a Picture not 'typed words' which can then be printed.

Hope its a bit clearer

Simon.
(There must be an easier way, now I've typed it out it all seems a bit OTT)
 
Thanks Simple Simon, that's crystal clear, and I'll try it now with either
Nero or Videostudion, both of which I have.
 
chopinhauer said:
Hi,

I have a large folder in my documents and want to print off a copy of the
all the files in that folder so I have a record of what is in it. It seems
simple enough, but for the life of me I don't know how to do it.
Click to expand...

Reading down the thread, it seems that you want a LIST rather than a
COPY of the files. That's pretty much an FAQ here. The two popular ways
are to get a directory printer tool, or to simply run a command line

DIR > FILELIST.TXT

(adding any DIR parameters that you find useful)
 
chopinhauer said:
I have a large folder in my documents and want to print off a copy of
the all the files in that folder so I have a record of what is in it.
It seems simple enough, but for the life of me I don't know how to do
it.

Has anyone got any ideas.
Click to expand...


Here are four ways:

1. Go to a command prompt and issue the command

dir [drive:folder] > c:\tempfilename (you can use any name and put it in any
folder you want)

Then open notepad, open tempfilename, and print it from there.

2. Write (for example in Notepad) a 1-line text file:
DIR %1 /O >LPT1:

Save it as "printdir.bat" in the "Send To" folder.

Then, to print list of files in any folder, right-click that folder and
select Send to | printdir.bat

To include subfolders, change the comand to DIR %1 /O/S >LPT1:

3. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321379 and
follow the instructions there.

4. Download and use any of the several freeware/shareware utilities that can
do this, such as the popular
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
 
Simple said:
If I've read your post right, and all you want is a list of files
that are stored in a folder, one way I used was to put the items in
detail view and set up a screen capture.

Not the simplest method but it worked for me,
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This is generally not an effective way to do it uinless the list is very
short. With a longer list, you have to scroll and capture multiple times,
which is clumsy, to say the least.
 
Simple said:
Sorry, I didn't explain it very well.
In order to do a screen capture you will need some digital imaging
software such as PaintShopPro or Adobe's PhotoShop. (The
documentation supplied with these will explain how to set up screen
captures)
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No, no such software is necessary to do a screen capture.

Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the screen. But in
all versions of Windows, this works differently, and the name of the key is
now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire screen, or press
alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active window. Either one captures
the image to the Windows clipboard. Once it's in the clipboard you can paste
(Ctrl-V) it into any application that supports graphics (Windows Paint,
other graphics programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or
add to the image as you wish, then print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing it is an
improvement over the original DOS method of just printing it. But if you'd
like that old facility back, there are several third-party
freeware/shareware programs that can do this, such as PrintKey2000 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm
 
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