How to only print attachment(s) from one email or selected emails in Outlook?

In Outlook, you can print the emails, but have you printed the attachments only from one email or selected emails in Outlook? In this article, I introduce the tricks on solving this job.

Only print attachment(s) from one email with Quick Print

Only print attachment(s) from selected emails with VBA

Only print attachment(s) from one email with Quick Print

To print the attachments only without email body, you can use the Quick Print function.

1. In the message window, right click at the attachment you want to print, select Quick Print from the context menu.

2. Then click Save > Save to save the attachment file in a location.

3. Now go to the location you placed the attachment file, and open the file to print as usual.

Only print attachment(s) from selected emails with VBA

If you want to print the attachments from selected emails, you can use VBA code.

1. Select the emails you want to print the attachments, press Alt + F11 keys to enable Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Double click ThisOutlookSession from Project1 pane, copy and paste below code to the script.

VBA:Print attachments from selected emails

Sub BatchPrintAllAttachmentsInMultipleEmails()
'UpdatebyExtendoffice20180417
Dim xFSO As Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim xTmpFldPath As String
Dim xSelection As Outlook.Selection
Dim xItem As Object
Dim xMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim xAttachments As Outlook.Attachments
Dim xAttachment As Outlook.Attachment
Dim xShell As Object
Dim xTempFolder As Object
Dim xTempFolderItem As Object
Dim xFilePath As String
On Error Resume Next
Set xFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
xTmpFldPath = xFSO.GetSpecialFolder(2).Path & "\Temp for Attachments"
If xFSO.FolderExists(xTmpFldPath) = False Then
    xFSO.CreateFolder xTmpFldPath
End If
Set xSelection = Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
Set xShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set xTempFolder = xShell.NameSpace(0)
For Each xItem In xSelection
    If xItem.Class = olMail Then
        Set xMailItem = xItem
        If xMailItem.Attachments.Count = 0 Then Exit Sub
        Set xAttachments = xMailItem.Attachments
        For Each xAttachment In xAttachments
            xFilePath = xTmpFldPath & "\" & xAttachment.FileName
            xAttachment.SaveAsFile (xFilePath)
            Set xTempFolderItem = xTempFolder.ParseName(xFilePath)
            xTempFolderItem.InvokeVerbEx ("print")
        Next
    End If
Next

'If xFSO.FolderExists(xTmpFldPath) Then
'    xFSO.DeleteFolder xTmpFldPath, True
'End If
End Sub

3. Then click Tools > References, and in the References dialog, check Microsoft Scripting Runtime checkbox.
  

4. Click OK, then press F5 key to print all attachments in the selected emails in bulk.

Note: If the attachment is picture, it will pop out a Print Pictures dialog first, click Print to go to the Save Print Output As dialog.