Opening a MSWord .doc on Word v. X

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I have an MSWord .doc (created with which version, I do not know), I want to
open in my Word X. This .doc has four video clips in it. In Word X, the
video clips appear as inserted graphics and doule-clicking them brings up
the Picture Format window. Double clicking them in Word2K brings up Visual
Basic.

In the Windows VB, there are five listed properties listed this .doc, four
of which are associated with each of the for video clips, named Windows
Media Player 1, 2, etc. Each Windows Media property has a URL associated
where the actual .wmv resides.

When I open up VB in Word X, those four Windows Media properties are absent,
probably the reason why I cannot view the video in Word X. Is the related
to the differences in VB of Windows and Mac stated in the Help menu? Is
there a way I can view the video in Word X? These .docs are for a class I
am taking and it would be extremely helpful to me to solve this issue.

 

[CyberTaz]

Word doesn't play the media clips - on Mac _or_ PC - it simply transports
the files. In order to run the clips I believe you need Windows Media
Player, which is a free d/l available here:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13112

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

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Word doesn't play the media clips - on Mac _or_ PC - it simply transports
the files. In order to run the clips I believe you need Windows Media
Player, which is a free d/l available here:

Yes, I understand Word will run the files directly and it needs to run a
media player in order to do so. I do have Flip4Mac to run WMVs in
QuickTime. However, after clicking on the embedded video icon, Word X will
not launch a media player, and soley brings up the Picture Format
screen--treating the video icon as an image not a video.

Also, why are the Windows Media Player properties absent from the Word X
file, when they are present in the MSWord2K version?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Totally wild guess‹

Try a Save As WebPage on the doc. Theoretically, this ought to separate the
videos into files that the webpage is linked to (probably in a separate
folder with a similar name as the doc). Then see if you can play the videos
directly.

However, it kinda sounds like maybe the videos are not even in the document,
but stored at a URL, and this is just a complicated way of sending you the
links?

Are they viewable in Word 2000 with no internet connection?

Word 2000 does have VBA 6, while MacWord stopped at VBA 5. That may be part
of the difference.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

If you had a media file on your desktop which wouldn't open with the proper
application, I would tell you to click on it once to select it, do a Get
Info (Cmd>i), and change the Open With application to the proper one (and
finally click Change All if you wanted the change to apply to all such
files). I have no idea if this has any relevance for a media file that's
embedded in a Word doc or not, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

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However, it kinda sounds like maybe the videos are not even in the document,
but stored at a URL, and this is just a complicated way of sending you the
links?

The videos definitely reside on a website. I discovered this while poking
around after I launched VB after double clicking the video image in Word 2K.
In the four Windows Media Player properties it listed the URL for each
video.

Are they viewable in Word 2000 with no internet connection?

No. They are definitely residing "out there". A wacky way to send video
clips, I agree. Just the URL in the .doc would have been easy.

Word 2000 does have VBA 6, while MacWord stopped at VBA 5. That may be part
of the difference.

It seems to me to be the case because of the difference in the two ways the
two systems translated the macros in VB. I just wanted to verify this and
make sure there isn't a preference in Word X I need to adjust.

 

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If you had a media file on your desktop which wouldn't open with the proper
application, I would tell you to click on it once to select it, do a Get
Info (Cmd>i), and change the Open With application to the proper one (and
finally click Change All if you wanted the change to apply to all such
files). I have no idea if this has any relevance for a media file that's
embedded in a Word doc or not, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

No, because what is supposed to be the embedded video in Word X is just an
image and when clicked, it responds like any graphic in a Word .doc