How to bulk print only the excel 2007 file attachments within an Outlook folder

You can purchase Print Manager Plus (http://www.softwareshelf.com/) which will do this automatically. We use it and it's very configurable and reliable.

Sorry, ignore my first post. What you want is Automatic Email manager: http://www.namtuk.com/auto_email_manager.aspx

Don't know why Print Manager PLus came to mind....

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/print-an-attachment-received-in-a-message-HP001232905.aspx

Rob

Select multiple email messages, then follow link above.

Do this first though - click to open single attachment (make it Excel) UNCHECK the Always ask before opening this type of file.....

Rob

Then try with 2 or 3 email messages selected with exel attachments

varbarsoun-I don't want to buy a product  or introduce another product to our environment
rjwesley-The solution you proposed prints the email page in addition to the attachment.  I don't want to print the email since I don't need it and don't want to waste the paper.  I couldn't find the UNCHECK that you mentioned in your solution to not ask before opening the file

Hi, PJ_KD.

I wrote an EE article about how to do this.  Here's a link to it.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Groupware/Outlook/A_2924-Automatically-Printing-Saving-Emails-Attachments-in-Outlook.html

Rob,
I am using the File | Print.  The print range does eliminate the printing of all of the cover pages with the exception of the first page.  Since each spreadsheet is an .xls file and they are being opened by Excel 2007, there is a prompt after opening each file as to whether to Save it, not save or Cancel for each file opened.  Since there will be 300 at a time, is there some way to suppress the Save prompt?
Kathryn

When you double click an single email message with an xls or xlsx attachment, is there not a prompt as in the link. This should occur when you double click a file attachment to OPEN the file within Excel, not PREVIEW the file within Outlook.

An image like this should pop up (http://www.daleisphere.com/wp-content/uploads/image322.png) - this is where you want to remove the check mark beside "Always ask before opening this type of file....."

Rob

Rob, I had tried that but still got the same prompt while printing the spreadsheets.  I have developed an alternative solution through an Outlook macro with code borrowed from various sources.  It does the same thing as your recommended solution except it continues to print even though there are windows open (one for each spreadsheet) to Update (yes, no, or cancel).  Maybe there is some code trap that can be added to this to bypass the Windows prompt for each printed file.  Here is that code:

Kathryn

Public Sub PrintAttachments()
    Dim Inbox As MAPIFolder
    Dim Item As MailItem
    Dim Atmt As Attachment
    Dim FileName As String
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
    Dim wb As Excel.Workbook

    Set Inbox = GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Parent.Folders.Item("BiG")

    For Each Item In Inbox.Items
        For Each Atmt In Item.Attachments
            
            FileName = "C:\BiGTemp\" & Atmt.FileName
            Atmt.SaveAsFile FileName
            
            Set xlApp = New Excel.Application
            Set wb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(FileName, , ReadOnly)
            
            wb.PrintOut
            xlApp.Quit
   
        Next
        
    Next

    Set Inbox = Nothing
End Sub

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BlueDeveilFan - I just saw that you had submitted a response but had missed it earlier so I did not see your solution until I had developed this one.  I don't know whether your solution would have solved my problem or not.

No problem.  

I am fine with closing this.

I have the answer I need now