Batch printing MS Word attachments from Mail

As background info:  I'm a recruiter, I subscribe to many different avenues for getting new resumes.  When they come in via email services or job ads or my website I don't always get around to printing and saving each individual attached resume (99% of the time in MS Word) - so as a temporary holding solution they'll go into a specific email folder that I've created for different geographies - ie I have one folder for "new england"  - there may be 50 emails in there at one time.
I can go to the folder on as-needed basis and search subjects for appropriate candidates, however, what I'd really like to do is print out all of the MS Word documents in the folders so I can then do the data entry part into my File Maker Pro (name, background keywords, geography) - so when I have a job to fill everybody is in my database.  That's going to be tedious enough since I'm so far behind.
My knowledge of automater and scripts is ZERO, this is one part of the Mac experience that I haven't used much, I've tried and never really had much success.
I've tried in the past and it seems the only way to get them to print is to have to actually open them and hit the print button.
I was looking for a solution about a year ago and never did come up with one, I'm hoping that there is something new out there or somebody sees this and can help.  Most of the answers I saw on there were from 09 and earlier.
Thank you,

This looks like a Launch Services issue. The following article describes how to manually reset Launch Services. The notes at the bottom of the article also provide information about the side effects of deleting each of the files involved.
Resetting Launch Services
The following article also describes the side effects of cache cleaning:
Side effects of System cache cleaning
The following article provides links to some utilities that can be used for troubleshooting and cache cleaning:
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption
It seems that the most appropriate utility for solving this particular problem is Tiger Cache Cleaner.
In addition to the utilities mentioned above, you may also consider OnyX, which is free. If you want to try OnyX, after installing it, do this (be sure to read the articles about the side effects of cache cleaning first):
1. Quit all applications.
2. Launch OnyX and enter your administrator password.
3. Click Maintenance. In the Reset section, check LaunchServices database.
4. You may uncheck any other pre-checked options if you've already done them using other utilities.
5. Click the Execute button.
6. Restart.
If that doesn't solve the problem, you may try again checking the Links between documents and applications option in step 3 instead.
And yet another free cache cleaning utility is Cache Out X.
Please, let me know whether you were able to solve the problem, what worked for you and what didn't.

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