Remove Compatibility Mode

[msdiniz]

Hello, gmayor, w64bit and ALL

I need to convert all my thousands of docs to the latest format (with no Compatibility Mode) because I use these docs for prescription and instructions for mine patients, both at my office and at their homes; for that, I have a Windows 10 PC and an Android tablet.


When I try to edit docs on Android tablet (much easier for me at their homes), the Android app Word adds a cumbersome step, that is the need to convert to docx.

I had no problem with Graham Mayor`s Works_Batch_Converter and document_batch_processes (office 360 32 bits), except for one thing that is crucial to me: maintain the date stamp of modification, which these converters don't do, as far as I know.

But

Originally Posted by w64bit

3. I found a way to preserve date/time stamps in the process.

Is it easy? how?

TIA

[macropod]

msdiniz: Please don't resurrect old threads or attempt to hijack them for your own purposes. I've split your post off to a new topic.

Compatibility Mode has nothing to do with whether Android tablets can read Word documents. Most likely the problems you're having relate to the file format, not to Compatibility Mode.

Although it's possible to write code that converts from, say, .doc format to .docx format, the new file necessarily has a new date & time stamp. While it's possible to replace the new date & time stamp with the original (I've posted code for that elsewhere), that won't help you if the document uses date-based fields such as CREATEDATE (fairly common with documents based on a template), since the SaveAs process needed for the conversion changes the document's internal metadata for that property (and others). So, even if you changed the date & time stamp, the document's contents would say otherwise. There may be commercial software that can do such conversions without affecting the metadata.

[msdiniz]

Hi, macropod.
Sorry if I hurt forumquette... that were not my intention...

After post here yesterday, I stumbled with http://www.rbrussell.com/2013/01/23/...office-format/ and did that;

The MS converter functioned like a breeze and preserved the creation, impression and last modified date (both on info tab inside Word as on Windows Explorer); Graham's converter modified creation and last modified date, preserving only last impression date.
And you are right: the android issue is with file format (docx vs doc), not compatibility mode (but it opens faster docx without compatibility mode).

So, problem solved in another way, less clean, because I had to do after a cmd Robocopy to place old docs in a safe place and a forfiles /s /m *.doc /c "cmd /c del @file" to remove the old docs.

It would have been much easier if the Graham utility keep the date, only for this reason I posted in that thread...

Thanks,