Macro to save docx to doc that checks compatibility and converts content controls to static content.

Guessed · #1 10-10-2016, 11:34 PM

Telling a document to save with a filename ending with .doc doesn't actually MAKE it a Word 2003 doc format. The suffix is a rough indication of what the file type should be but doesn't actually control the file type in itself.

If your filename.doc still contains Content Controls then the actual filetype is probably docx or docm.

If you want to change the filetype then you need to specify this

Code:

ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:=strDrive & fisword & ".doc", FileFormat:=wdFormatDocument
' or
ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:=strDrive & fisword & ".docx", FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument

staicumihai · #2 10-12-2016, 08:23 PM

It works!

Thanks a lot man!

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