How to get Word-2007 File Format of the current document ?

Question

For Excel, the "Workbook" has a property of "FileFormat" which can be passed to SaveAs(). Unfortunately I con not find an equivalent Word propery of "Document". How can I get the file format of the current active document for SaveAs() ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

You need to pass SaveFormat to the SaveAs function in Word.

Hamed

Answer 2

Hi Hamed,

Thank you very much. I will try to use SaveFormat in Word.

Answer 3

Hi Hamed,

I have a similar question about PowePoint. Which property should I use to get the current "FileFormat" of PowerPoint ? And, if any, which type should I use to pass the value to other variable, such as in int, ... ?

Thanks

Takashi Fukuda

Answer 4

Hi Takashi,

You may use Presentation.PpSaveAsFileType. If you do not provide this in the SaveAs method, the default format will be used to save the presentation. Take a look at here. To see the number behind each member of the enum, look here.

Tip: in order to find answer to such questions, you can simply search the method you want to use (i.e. SaveAs in this case) in MSDN website and look what parameters the method takes. There will be a reference to the parameter type in the method description.

BTW, please do not forget to mark the replies that help you as "Answer".

Hamed

Answer 5

Hi Hamed,

I am not sure if your answer is what I wanted. For Word, I can use "SaveFormat" (as you suggested) to get the file type from the currently opened document. And for Excel, "FileFormat" property works fine. My question is how to get the current file type from the opened presentation. So far I looked at the MSDN Library. Unfortunately I could not get an answer. Since we need to identify file types of old presentations, it is desired a object property which contained the file type information.

Thanks,

Takashi Fukuda

Answer 6

Hi Hamed,

I am not sure if your answer is what I wanted. For Word, I can use "SaveFormat" (as you suggested) to get the file type from the currently opened document. And for Excel, "FileFormat" property works fine. My question is how to get the current file type from the opened presentation. So far I looked at the MSDN Library. Unfortunately I could not get an answer. Since we need to identify file types of old presentations, it is desired a object property which contained the file type information.

Thanks,

Takashi Fukuda

Answer 7

Unfortunately I am not aware of such property. I am not sure if an equivalent of Document.SaveFormat exists for Presentation. you may find this out by checking the file extension.

can you explain what your scenario is? why do you need to know the type of an existing presentation?

Hamed

Answer 8

Hi Hamed,

As far as I looked at the WdSaveFormat enumeration table, there are 3x file formats for Word document, and 4x texts:

wdFormatDocument, wdFormatDocumentDefault, wdFormatDocument97 (for 2x file extensions: .doc and .docx ?)

wdFormatEncodedText, wdFormatText, wdFormatTextLineBreaks, wdFormatUnicodeText, (for 1x extension: .txt ?)

How can I differenciate them with file extensions ? I may be missing something.

Thanks,

Takashi Fukuda

Answer 9

Hello Takashi,

In Word, there is a function Marco Record. We can use it to record the actions users were doing in Macro format.

If we record a marco and then perform to save the document in different file extensions, then we will see the corresponding enumeration values used in the recorded Marco.

You can see the instructions about Marco Record in the documentation,

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100997691033.aspx

 

Best regards,

Ji Zhou

MSDN Subscriber Support in Forum

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