Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document.SaveAs

Question

Hi all,

I am not sure if I am posting in the right forum, but here it goes.

I have an ASP.NET application that uploads Word documents and converts them to HTML and XML using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document.SaveAs method.

To convert to HTML I use the following code:

Code Snippet

Protected missing As Object = System.Reflection.Missing.Value
Dim oDoc As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document = objWord.ActiveDocument
oDoc.SaveAs(FileToSave, 10, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing)

The second parameter is the FileFormat... and 10 represents Filtered HTML Output.

I was searching on how to convert the file to XML and found that I can use the same code, but have to change the File Format parameter.

Anyone knows what value I should set?

Thanks 

Answer 1

Hi Nasty,

 

Here are some references:

 

WD2000: How to Use Other Converters with the FileFormat Property

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/209186

 

MS Word 2003 XML Output

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/word2003.aspx

 

Walkthrough: Word 2007 XML Format

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771890.aspx

 

Office XML Developer Centers on MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905545.aspx

 

Thread: Converting Word doc into XML

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2598253&SiteID=1

 

Visual Studio Tools for Office forum

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16&SiteID=1

 

 

Regards,

Martin

Answer 2

Hi Martin,

Thank you for the links, they were very useful.
For anyone else who encounters the same problem, all I had to do is change the second parameter of the SaveAs method from 10 to 11      yep, it was that easy!

Regards

Answer 3

Thank you Nasty for sharing your solution here.

It will be very beneficial to other community members having similar questions.

Answer 4

Hello,

My name Tan Khai, I use Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document.SaveAs to SaveAs a .doc file to .html file (filtered)
------------------my code (C#)--------------------------
//.....
Word.Document oDoc = objWord.ActiveDocument;
object Format = (int)Word.WdSaveFormat.wdFormatFilteredHTML;
oDoc.SaveAs(ref fileName, ref Format, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref encoding, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
------------------------------------------------------------
But in .html file, font of some object such as ClipArt, Textbox, ...is lost (I use font: Times New roman with character set is Unicode

Please see my demo in .rar file can be download at: http://www.mtools.vn/word_question.rar

How can I fix this problem?

Looking for respond.

Thanks a lot

tankhai

Answer 5

KhaiHuynh said:

But in .html file, font of some object such as ClipArt, Textbox, ...is lost (I use font: Times New roman with character set is Unicode

Please see my demo in .rar file can be download at: http://www.mtools.vn/word_question.rar

How can I fix this problem?

Please check this KB article for reference:
Limitations when you save a Word document as a Web page
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212270/en-us

Answer 6

Hi Guys,

Could you please help me out!

All I need to do is to convert a word document (or XML Document) to image file to store it in DB (SQL Server 2005).

Thanks in advance.

Answer 7

Hi Team,

I am new to Office Programming. I need to highlight all the  text in a word document that is not in the Font "Arial". Could you please help me?  (I was successful in opening the document and updaing it as a sample as shown below.)

 

object missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.

Application wordApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.

Document wordDoc = null;

 

object readOnly = false;

 

object isVisible = false;

wordApp.Visible =

false;

wordDoc = wordApp.Documents.Open(

ref fileName, ref missing, ref readOnly, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref isVisible, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

wordDoc.Activate();

wordDoc.Content.InsertAfter(

"----");

this

 

.FindAndReplace(wordApp, originalText, newText);

wordDoc.SaveAs(

ref destinationfileName, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

wordDoc.Close(

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

Answer 8

I have the following code

 

Public

 

Function convertXMLToFormat(ByVal strDesiredFormat As Integer, ByVal strSourceName As String, ByVal strTargetName As String) As Boolean

 

Try

 

Dim wordApp As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application

wordApp.Visible =

False

 

Dim wordDocs As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document = wordApp.Documents.Open(strSourceName, False, True)

 

Dim outputFileName As Object = strTargetNameDim missing As Object = Type.Missing

wordDocs.SaveAs(outputFileName, strDesiredFormat, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing)

' fails on line above with message  Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

 

 

 

Try

wordDocs.Close(

False)

wordApp.Quit(

False)

 

Catch ex As Exception

 

End Try

convertXMLToFormat =

True

 

Catch ex As Exception

m_error = ex.Message + ex.StackTrace

convertXMLToFormat =

False

 

End Try

 

 

End Function

Answer 9

FYI.. the attached code works fine when run from visual studio...