What I would like to happen is with either a click (or two) or a drag/drop for the files to open, print and close again.
My printer icon is in the doc, not on the desktop. Does that make a difference? Would a shortcut on the desktop help? ----------------------------------------------- www.manorparksurgery.com www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com 2009/3/11 Jason Davies <[email protected]> > > Russell Brown wrote on 11/3/09 at 20:47 > > >I'm trying to figure out an easy way of printing Word documents direct > >from the file without having to go through the laborious process of > >double clicking, cmd-P, return blahblah. > > I don't think you can avoid SOMETHING opening to put together > the print information. even if you could get something that > reads doc files to do it, I find none of them realyl quite > render Word documents properly unless they've very simple. > > The simplest way I know is to open it in Word and hit the Print > toolbar (fewest steps). > > Probably the reason you get a blank window if Word is not > running is because the Automator script times out. That could be fixed. > > Spell out the workflow a bit more precisely. Are you trying to > automate? Or just avoid launching Word? (etc). > > With Word open, if I drop a doc file on a desktop printer icon, > which seems to be what you are doing, it prints it without > further ado. Are you saying this doesn't work? Where is the > printer icon exactly? (have you put in the Dock or is it on the desktop?) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
