Just to confirm...these are not merge documents, correct? You just want to print out a batch of selected static documents?

Also, which version of Word do you use?

To respond to Hammer's question: these are not merge documents and we are running Word 2007...
Thank you!

Thanks for the sample files, Cliff.

OK, my evil scheme looks workable! I just did a proof statement, but it definitely works. A final version would need error handling and probably some management with regard to automatic page numbering, varying margins and suchlike.

Firstly, I made a text file with the list of files I want to assemble. Since you already have the list in SBasic, writing it out to a file is trivial. My file is called filelist.txt and looks like this:

AUTO002E 0195.rtf
CA0038 1202.rtf
CG0300 0196.rtf
CL0197 0101.rtf
CP0129 0304.rtf
CR0246 0807.rtf
CU0145 0900.rtf
IL0023 0702.rtf
IM1550 0105.rtf

I then created and saved an empty Word document. I put the following VBA macro in the document, which collects all the desired documents and assembles them into a single package that will print out as one print job. It will run when the document is opened:

Private Sub Document_Open()
Dim strListPath As String
Dim strDocPath As String
Dim strFile As String

    strListPath = "D:\Jobs\TempJobs\RTFCombine\filelist.txt"
    strDocPath = "D:\Jobs\TempJobs\RTFCombine\"

    Open strListPath For Input As #1
    Do While Not EOF(1)
       Line Input #1, sFile
       Selection.EndKey wdStory, wdMove
       Selection.InsertFile Chr(34) & strDocPath & sFile & Chr(34)
       Selection.EndKey wdStory, wdMove
       Selection.InsertBreak wdSectionBreakNextPage
    Loop
    Close #1
   
    ActiveDocument.PrintPreview

End Sub


The VBA sets a couple of paths, so I know where to find my files. It then opens my filelist.txt file and reads it in line by line. For each line, it moves to the end of the document, inserts the file, and adds a section break. The section break both creates a page break and also allows each inserted document to retain its column breaks and suchlike. When it's all done, it open the document in Print Preview so I can look at it. You can also have it print directly to the printer and then close itself.

As I said, the VBA would need polished up, but the concept is certainly doable.