Consider the following scenario:
- You are using Windows XP or Windows Vista as your operating system.
- You have Microsoft XPS Document Writer set as the default printer.
- In Windows Explorer, you select multiple Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010, 2007, or 2003 presentations.
- You right-click the selected presentations, and then you click Print.
In this scenario, only the one presentation that is selected is printed as an .xps document. Additionally, this .xps document has the file name that was created for the first document that was printed. The remaining presentations do not have a corresponding .xps document. The contents of the .xps document will not necessarily reflect the first presentation that was printed but instead could be one of the other presentations that was selected.
For example, if you try to print
a.ppt,
b.ppt, and
c.ppt as .xps documents, the resulting
a.xps document will contain the contents of either a.ppt, b.ppt or
c.ppt. Additionally, only the first .xps document is created. No corresponding .xps documents are created for the remaining presentations.
To work around this problem, select and then print each presentation separately.
This issue is not seen in machines running the Windows 7 operating system regardless of the version of Office being used, however the name given to the .xps file may not necessarily coordinate with the order that the .ppt files were selected.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.