Article ID: 185052
Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q185052
SUMMARY
The SaveAs method of the Document object in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications has an optional parameter called FileFormat that you can use to specify the save format for the document.
This article describes how to use the FileFormat property of the SaveAs method to specify a converter that is not supported with one of the supplied constants (values).
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FileFormat accepts the following built-in conversion constants:
wdFormatDocument
Save as a Word document.
wdFormatText
Text Only: Saves text without its formatting. Converts all section breaks, page breaks, and newline characters to paragraph marks. Uses the ANSI character set. Select this format only if the destination program cannot read any of the other available file formats.
wdFormatDOSText
MS-DOS Text: Converts files the same way as Text only format (wdFormatText). Uses the extended ASCII character set, which is the standard for MS-DOS-based programs. Use this format to share documents between Word and non-Windows-based programs.
wdFormatTextLineBreaks
Text only with line breaks: Saves text without formatting. Converts all line breaks, section breaks, and page breaks to paragraph marks. Use this format when you want to maintain line breaks. For example, when transferring documents to an electronic mail system.
wdFormatDOSTextLineBreaks
MS-DOS text only with line breaks: Saves text without formatting. Converts all line breaks, section breaks, and page breaks to paragraph marks. Use this format when you want to maintain line breaks, for example, when transferring documents to an electronic mail system.
wdFormatRTF
Rich Text Format (RTF): Saves all formatting. Converts formatting to instructions that other programs, including compatible Microsoft programs, can read and interpret.
wdFormatTemplate
Save as a Word template.
wdFormatUnicodeText
Saves as a Unicode text file. Converts text between common character encoding standards, inclucing Unicode 2.0, Mac OS, Windows, EUC and ISO-8859 series.
Other File Types
If you record a macro that saves a file as a type not supported by one of the constants described earlier, the FileFormat property will contain a number. The following sample macro was recorded using HTML as the Save As Type:
Sub Macro1()
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="myHTMLdoc", FileFormat:=103
End Sub
Note the number 103 that was recorded for the HTML FileFormat argument. This number may not be the same on another computer.
To retrieve the correct FileFormat number for a conversion type for any computer, use the FileConverters collection. The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro saves a document in HTML format on any computer:
NOTE: In the following example, replace "HTML" with the class name you want to Save As. For a list of class names, see the "Obtaining Class Names" section later in this article.
Sub SaveAsHTML()
Dim fcCnv As FileConverter
Dim strClass As String
Dim strFileName As String
' If there are no documents open to
' save, exit this routine.
If Documents.Count = 0 Then Exit Sub
' Set the ClassName to use for saving.
strClass = "HTML"
' Set the FileName to use for saving.
strFileName = "MyHTMLdoc"
' Loop through all installed converters.
For Each fcCnv In FileConverters
With fcCnv
' Test for conversion ClassName.
If .ClassName = strClass Then
' Save using the FileConverters.ClassName.
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=strFileName, _
FileFormat:=.SaveFormat
End If
End With
Next fcCnv
End Sub
For more information about the SaveFormat Property, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type "SaveFormat," click Search, and then click to view "SaveFormat Property."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
176476 Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions
Obtaining Class Names
The following list contains converters and class names installed by Word that you can use for saving a document:
Converter ClassName
----------------------------------------------------
HTML Document HTML
MS-DOS Text with Layout MS-DOS Text with Layout
Text with Layout Text with Layout
Word 2.x for Windows MSWordWin2
Converter: Word 4.0 for Macintosh MSWordMac4
Word 5.0 for Macintosh MSWordMac5
Word 5.1 for Macintosh MSWordMac51
WordPerfect 5.0 WrdPrfctDOS50
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS WrdPrfctDOS51
WordPerfect 5.x for Windows WrdPrfctWin
WordPerfect 5.1 or 5.2 Secondary File WrdPrfctDat
WordPerfect 5.0 Secondary File WrdPrfctDat50
Works 3.0 for Windows MSWorksWin3
Works 4.0 for Windows MSWorksWin4
Word 6.0/95 MSWord6Exp
Word 97 & 6.0/95 - RTF MSWord6RTFExp
To retrieve other class names for an installed converter to Save As, you can loop through the FileConverters collection.
The following sample macro loops through all installed converters that you can use for saving, and then inserts the converter name and associated class name into a blank document:
Sub GetConvClassName()
Dim fcCnv As FileConverter
' Create blank document.
Documents.Add
' Loop through all installed converters.
For Each fcCnv In FileConverters
With fcCnv
' If the converter can be used to save...
If .CanSave = True Then
' Insert the converter name and class name in the document.
Selection.TypeText "Converter: " & .FormatName & vbTab _
& "ClassName: " & .ClassName & vbCr
End If
End With
Next fcCnv
End Sub
For more information about the ClassName property, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type "ClassName," click Search, and then click to view "ClassName Property."
REFERENCES
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
173707 How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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