You can have Outlook print attachments of incoming emails from certain people automatically. To do that you need to add a script in Outlook.
- In Outlook, go to Developer tab and click “Visual Basic” button
If you don’t have “Developer” tab, go to customize your ribbon/toolbar and add “Developer” - In new window titled “Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications”, double-click “ThisOutlookSession” icon in the tree on left side and paste the following script text into the new window on the right:Sub LSPrint(Item As Outlook.MailItem)
On Error GoTo OError’detect Temp
Dim oFS As FileSystemObject
Dim sTempFolder As String
Set oFS = New FileSystemObject
‘Temporary Folder Path
sTempFolder = oFS.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder)’creates a special temp folder
cTmpFld = sTempFolder & “\OETMP” & Format(Now, “yyyymmddhhmmss”)
MkDir (cTmpFld)’save & print
Dim oAtt As Attachment
For Each oAtt In Item.Attachments
FileName = oAtt.FileName
FullFile = cTmpFld & “\” & FileName’save attachment
oAtt.SaveAsFile (FullFile)’prints attachment
Set objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”)
Set objFolder = objShell.NameSpace(0)
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName(FullFile)
objFolderItem.InvokeVerbEx (“print”)Next oAtt‘Cleanup
If Not oFS Is Nothing Then Set oFS = Nothing
If Not objFolder Is Nothing Then Set objFolder = Nothing
If Not objFolderItem Is Nothing Then Set objFolderItem = Nothing
If Not objShell Is Nothing Then Set objShell = NothingOError:
If Err <> 0 Then
MsgBox Err.Number & ” – ” & Err.Description
Err.Clear
End If
Exit SubEnd Sub
- Go to menu Tools > References and add a reference to “Microsoft Scripting Runtime”. Click OK button to close References window.
- Hit Save icon on top toolbar and close Visual Basic window.
- Create a rule in Outlook for all incoming messages from a certain person (or from who you receive those attachments) and choose run a script action.
We hope you have successfully set up Outlook to print attachments.
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