Reverting back to Word97's "Save as.." File Format Description

[Vemn]

Hi,

I'm an application developer and I'm currently facing a problem in a legacy
system written during the days of Office 97.

My organisation has migrated from using MS Office 97 to MS Office XP a
couple of years back but none of the users or application developers back
then discover that actually one of the functionality of an existing system,
which is to convert a word document to a web page, wasn't able to work.

Why?

Because the VB program was written such that it's searching through the
"Save As.." dialog for a string call "HTML Document (*.htm; *.html)", once
found then proceed with the conversion. However, the versions after Office97
all had their that particular File Format Description changed to "Web Page
(*.htm; *.html), thus, triggered an error.

I understand the easier way out is to edit that programming code and
re-compile the project but that was not of comfort level at my management
side.

Thus, I'm currently + urgently looking for solution to edit the File Format
Description listbox so that to comply to the legacy system.

Apologies for the lengthy email but I hoped I'd expressed sufficiently for
your understanding and assistance.

regards

 

[Graham Mayor]

The wording your original application was searching for was placed by the
registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Text
Converters\Export\HTML
however it appears that in later versions, this option has been overridden
by the application itself, so even though the above may be (and probably
is - as here) still present, the text in question is not going to appear in
the saveas dialog.
Modifying the original application, or creating a new one would be the
better way forward.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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