KB184157 - WD98: Avoiding "Save As" Alert When Saving to Different Format

Article ID: 184157

Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005

Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q184157

SUMMARY

When you save a file in a format other than the default Microsoft Word 98 format, the Office Assistant warns you that you may lose some features.

This article discusses a method you can use to avoid this warning each time you save a document.

MORE INFORMATION

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To prevent the Office Assistant warning each time you save a document in a format other than Word 98, you need to create three Visual Basic for Applications macros. Name each macro as follows:

FileSave, FileSaveAs, and Save_SaveAs

and type the following example Visual Basic for Applications code into each respective macro:

   Sub FileSave()
      ' If the document has not been saved
      ' display the File SaveAs dialog.
      If ActiveDocument.Saved = False Then
         ' Call the Save_SaveAs macro.
         Save_SaveAs
      Else
         ' Otherwise, save the document.
         ActiveDocument.Save
      End If
   End Sub

   Sub FileSaveAs()
      ' Call the Save_SaveAs macro.
      Save_SaveAs
   End Sub

   Public Sub Save_SaveAs()
      ' **********************************************
      ' This macro replaces the default functionality
      ' of the FileSaveAs command.
      ' **********************************************
      Dim myDialog As Dialog
      Set myDialog = Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs)
      ' Display the Dialog and save the document.
      If myDialog.Display Then
         ActiveDocument.SaveAs myDialog.Name, myDialog.Format, _
         myDialog.LockAnnot, myDialog.Password, myDialog.AddToMru, _
         myDialog.WritePassword, myDialog.RecommendReadOnly, _
         myDialog.EmbedFonts, myDialog.NativePictureFormat, _
         myDialog.FormsData, myDialog.SaveAsAOCELetter
      End If
   End Sub

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

181058 OFF98: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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