Microsoft KB Archive/224057

= WD2000: Err Msg: "No registered converter supports reading files in this format." =

Article ID: 224057

Article Last Modified on 12/2/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224057





ERROR MESSAGE
When you try to save a Word document in a particular file format using a Visual Basic for Applications macro, the following error message may appear:

Run-time error '5880':

No registered converter supports reading files in this format.

For example, this error message appears when you run the following macro code:

Sub MyFileSave

ActiveDocument.SaveAs "My Document File.doc", _ FileFormat:=Application.FileConverters("Text with Layout").SaveFormat

End Sub NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.



The correct external converter name was not used.
The following Visual Basic for Applications macro code checks for each of the converters in the FileConverters collection. If the converter is found, the macro saves the document in the specified file format. Otherwise, a message box appears indicating the converter was not found.

Sub UseClassName

Dim boolClassNameExist As Boolean Dim strMsg As String Dim strFileName As String Dim fcCnv As FileConverter

strMsg = "The converter was not found." strFileName = " "

For Each fcCnv In Application.FileConverters If fcCnv.ClassName = "" Then ActiveDocument.SaveAs strFileName, FileFormat:=fcCnv.SaveFormat boolClassNameExist = True Exit For End If Next fcCnv

If Not boolClassNameExist Then MsgBox strMsg

End Sub NOTE: You must specify the converter correctly by its proper class name. To determine the proper class name of an external converter (a converter that is not built into the Winword.exe executable), use the following example macro: Sub FindClassName

For Each aFile In FileConverters MsgBox aFile Next aFile

End Sub

The correct internal converter constant was not used.
To save a file using an internal converter (a converter that is built into the Winword.exe executable), you must use a wdSaveFormat constant, as in the following example macro: Sub UseWdSaveFormatConstantName

ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="My Web Page.htm", _ FileFormat:=wdFormatHTML

End Sub For more information about a wdSaveFormat converter constant, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type converter constant in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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