VBS saveas API behaviour is different from Menu saveas

[Ahmed AbuZekry]

I tried to write a simple VBS to open a .doc file and save it as .docx, and did the same from Menu items in Word. File size and XML contents in both cases are different. So it is a bug in saveas API or is there something missing ? I tried something like:



objDoc.SaveAs objFSO.BuildPath( outputDirectory, objFSO.GetBaseName( objFile ) & ".docx" ), wdFormatDocument

Is there anything missing in the saveas method to avoid this issue? Is there any way to make both files exactly match?

[Guessed]

What elements of the xml files differ?

The metadata may well be different in your testing eg save date/time so it is important to determine whether the differences are actually important.

[Ahmed AbuZekry]

The difference is not metadata. There are a lot of missing runs in the xml converted from the VBS and some bookmarks. Surprisingly, when I open both files using Word there is no difference. But I care only about the xml, I need them to match.