File Conversion dialog don’t show (WindXP Word 2003)

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Hi,

I have seen the thread starting with Post 231708, but my problem is different:

I’m opening a file with no extension, its probably a txt file. The “Tools/Optiond/General/Conferm Conversion at open” is not checked. (It probably doesn’t matter whether it is or not.)

When I use SaveAs and gives it a filename as a txt document another dialog box opens, called File Conversion. It contains a warning of loosing formating and an Option to Insert Line breaks ending with CR/LF.

This is actually what I want to happen, but:

In a global template I intercept the SaveAs with a procedure:

Public Sub FileSaveAs()
Dim response As Variant
Dim Prompt As String, Heading As String
Dim Msg

With Application.Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs)
.Name = “TypeNewName#”
‘ ActiveDocument.Saved = True
response = .Show
If response = 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If

On Error Resume Next
CUSTOMPROP = ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties(“NoMacroTemplate”)

If Err.Number 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
Err.Clear
End With
etc.

When the file has been saved as MyFile.txt the File Conversion dialog box does not open and I do not get the posibility to choose the Option to Insert Line breaks ending with CR/LF, which I want.

Anyone who can tel me why this happen and may how to get the dialog box to open?

Thanks!

Regards
Bj

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Save difference in behavior in Word 2002 (XP):

Sub SaveAsDialog()
Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show
End Sub

Suggests that the code behind the VBA dialog and the Word command are no longer in sync, perhaps for reasons of backwards compatibility of the VBA dialog? But simply executing the Save As commandbar control doesn’t pop up the second box, either:

Sub SaveAsCommand()
CommandBars.FindControl(ID:=748).Execute
End Sub

Oh wait, we have global replacement macros already, so I’m not sure about this one.

Difficult problem, and I have to get offline now…

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Hi,
and thanks so far I’ll try it.

Regards
Bj

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Hi,
and thanks so far I’ll try it.

Regards
Bj

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Hi,

The first works, I use the same in the with… procedure and the second one generates an error.

It looks to me that when intercepting the FileSaveAs command the File Conversion dialog will not be initialized. For some reason Word does not recognize it as a txt file in order to insert CR/LF(?)

Don’t know what more to try, its too late in the evening.

Regards
Bj

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Hi,

The first works, I use the same in the with… procedure and the second one generates an error.

It looks to me that when intercepting the FileSaveAs command the File Conversion dialog will not be initialized. For some reason Word does not recognize it as a txt file in order to insert CR/LF(?)

Don’t know what more to try, its too late in the evening.

Regards
Bj

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Save difference in behavior in Word 2002 (XP):

Sub SaveAsDialog()
Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show
End Sub

Suggests that the code behind the VBA dialog and the Word command are no longer in sync, perhaps for reasons of backwards compatibility of the VBA dialog? But simply executing the Save As commandbar control doesn’t pop up the second box, either:

Sub SaveAsCommand()
CommandBars.FindControl(ID:=748).Execute
End Sub

Oh wait, we have global replacement macros already, so I’m not sure about this one.

Difficult problem, and I have to get offline now…

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