how-to-programmatically-print-documents.md

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Programmatically print documents	Learn how you can print an entire Microsoft Word document, or part of a document, to your default printer.	02/02/2017	how-to	VB CSharp	Word [Office development in Visual Studio], printing documents documents [Office development in Visual Studio], printing	John-Hart	johnhart	mijacobs	office-development

Programmatically print documents

You can print an entire Microsoft Office Word document, or part of a document, to your default printer.

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Print a document that is part of a document-level customization

To print the entire document

1. Call the xref:Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Document.PrintOut%2A method of the ThisDocument class in your project to print the entire document. To use this example, run the code from the ThisDocument class.

   C#

   :::code language="csharp" source="../vsto/codesnippet/CSharp/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationCS/ThisDocument.cs" id="Snippet11":::

   VB

   :::code language="vb" source="../vsto/codesnippet/VisualBasic/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationVB/ThisDocument.vb" id="Snippet11":::

To print the current page of the document

1. Call the xref:Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Document.PrintOut%2A method of the ThisDocument class in your project and specify that one copy of the current page be printed. To use this example, run the code from the ThisDocument class.

   C#

   :::code language="csharp" source="../vsto/codesnippet/CSharp/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationCS/ThisDocument.cs" id="Snippet12":::

   VB

   :::code language="vb" source="../vsto/codesnippet/VisualBasic/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationVB/ThisDocument.vb" id="Snippet12":::

Print a document by using a VSTO Add-in

To print an entire document

1. Call the xref:Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document.PrintOut%2A method of the xref:Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document object that you want to print. The following code example prints the active document. To use this example, run the code from the ThisAddIn class in your project.

   C#

   :::code language="csharp" source="../vsto/codesnippet/CSharp/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationAddIn/ThisAddIn.cs" id="Snippet11":::

   VB

   :::code language="vb" source="../vsto/codesnippet/VisualBasic/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationAddIn/ThisAddIn.vb" id="Snippet11":::

To print the current page of a document

1. Call the xref:Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document.PrintOut%2A method of the xref:Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document object that you want to print, and specify that one copy of the current page be printed. The following code example prints the active document. To use this example, run the code from the ThisAddIn class in your project.

   C#

   :::code language="csharp" source="../vsto/codesnippet/CSharp/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationAddIn/ThisAddIn.cs" id="Snippet12":::

   VB

   :::code language="vb" source="../vsto/codesnippet/VisualBasic/Trin_VstcoreWordAutomationAddIn/ThisAddIn.vb" id="Snippet12":::

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