performing custom command when saving

[Omar]

hi,

when i save a document i also want the document saved in a few other
formats. it gets really laborious doing this via the menu each time...
is there a way to watch for the save command and then execute say save
as html at the same time?

thanks

omar

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Omar,

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm. If you
need help making the macro do what you want, please post in
microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Omar,

I'm glad you thought to ask this question -- a lot of folks try to overwrite
their colleagues' normal.dot and wind up in a heap of trouble.

You should put your macros in a separate template that you distribute, and
the other people put it in their Word startup folder so that it becomes a
"global" template. The details are at
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm.

 

[Omar]

Hi, Omar,

I'm glad you thought to ask this question -- a lot of folks try to overwrite
their colleagues' normal.dot and wind up in a heap of trouble.

this worked but now one more question... what i am doing is first
saving the document (ActiveDocument.Save) and then doing an
ActiveDocument.SaveAs call... however if i just leave it at that (and
save it as HTML) then i'm working on the html version after the save
call. a stupid hack that i can do is then do ANOTHER SaveAs call as a
standard word format..

but ideally i just want to save it as a word document, and then in the
background write the html document (or whatever format) without
actually working in that format after the save.

any ideas?

thanks

omar

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sorry to say, the stupid hack is the best there is. The alternative is to
copy the original document's contents into a new blank document, save that
as HTML, and close it; but I think that's slower.