John Colby
jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com
Mon Jan 9 12:27:09 CST 2006
My client currently opens a directory, selects a bunch of files, and from explorer's right click menu clicks "Print". The files are sent directly to the printer. In fact an instance of the object that "handles" the object opens and somehow causes it to send to the printer. Is there any way to use that functionality from inside Access? Try it yourself. Go to a directory, select a document (a word doc for instance), right click to get the context menu, click "Print" and watch closely, you will see Windows open Word, send the doc to the printer (the default printer for the machine) and then close Word again. This works for Office apps, for Tiffs (with a registered viewer) and for PDF files (with the registered viewer) although it does not close the PDF viewer when finished for some reason. I need to know how to call whatever it is that the print menu item calls, passing in the pathed document name in order to print the object. Has anyone done this? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com