FileSaveAs Doc Err: Incorrect .Format Argument Explanation |
Q117751
There is a documentation error in the Word for Windows online WordBasic
Help in the FileSaveAs topic. The same error occurs on page 445 of the
"Microsoft Word Developer's Kit."
These resources contain the following incorrect information:
You can specify other file formats, which must be listed in the [MSWord Text Converters] section of the WIN.INI file. To determine the appropriate value, count down, starting at 0 (zero), to the file format you want, and then add 100.Instead, online Help and the "Microsoft Word Developer's Kit" should state the following correct information:
You can specify other file formats if they are listed in the [MSWord Text Converters] section of your WINWORD6.INI file or the [MS Text Converters] section of your WIN.INI file. To determine the appropriate value for the .Format argument, count down, starting at 0 (zero) in the [MSWord Text Converters] section of your WINWORD6.INI file. Continue counting, starting with the next number, in the [MS Text Converters] section of your WIN.INI file, until you get to the file format you want. Then add 100 and use that number as the value of the .Format argument. For example, if you count down to 12, the value for the .Format argument is 112.Below is a table that lists the .Format argument values for a sample WINWORD6.INI and WIN.INI file:
Counted .Format
File, Section, and Setting Number Argument
-------------------------- ------- --------
WINWORD6.INI
[MSWord Text Converters]
------------------------
MS-DOS Text with Layout 0 100
Text with Layout 1 101
Lotus123 2 102
DisplayWrite 3 103
MSMultiPlan 4 104
MultiMate 4.0 5 105
MultiMate Adv II 6 106
MultiMate Advantage 7 107
MultiMate 3.3 8 108
WordPerfect 4.2 9 109
WIN.INI
[MS Text Converters]
--------------------
WrdPrfctDOS50 10 110
WrdPrfctDOS 11 111
WrdPrfctDOS52 12 112
MSWordWin2 13 113
MSWordDos 14 114
MSWordDos6 15 115
MSWordMac4 16 116
RFTDCA 17 117
MSBiff 18 118 Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word versions 6.0 and 6.0a for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
To avoid counting the WINWORD6.INI and WIN.INI entries manually, create a macro that uses the ConverterLookup() function to return the correct value for the .Format argument. See the sample macros on page 303 of the "Microsoft Word Developer's Kit" or the "ConverterLookup()" topic in online WordBasic Help for more information.
The following six formats are internal to Word for Windows, so they always use the same number for the .Format argument:
.Format File
Argument Format
-------- ------
0 Normal (Word format)
1 Document Template
2 Text Only (extended characters saved in ANSI character set)
3 Text+Breaks (plain text with line breaks; extended
characters saved in ANSI character set)
4 Text Only (PC-8) (extended characters saved in IBM PC
character set)
5 Text+Breaks (PC-8) (text with line breaks; extended
characters saved in IBM PC character set)
6 Rich-text format (RTF) "Microsoft Word Developer's Kit," version 6.0, Microsoft Press, 1994, pages 303, 445
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