Save as... *.ans

[Guest]

Hello all

my customer has save his documents as *.ans format. He have done it with office 2002 (XP) but no
we have update his office to version 2003. There is not possible to save document as .ans format
How to fix this? Text with Layout (*.ans) was save as option in 2002

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2Ftc3Rlcg==?=,

my customer has save his documents as *.ans format. He have done it with office 2002 (XP) but now
we have update his office to version 2003. There is not possible to save document as .ans format.
How to fix this? Text with Layout (*.ans) was save as option in 2002

This is due to the new security measures MS has been implementing. The older
converters were often produced by third parties (no longer around) and were
"unsigned". MS had to make a decision, which ones to re-write and sign and which
to not include in the product.

Some of those not included "out of the box" can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/tools/BoxA07.htm

If you need a specific converter that isn't available in the 2003 converter pack,
contact MS Support and reference this KB article (read it first!):
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

They should provide you the converter in question as a download.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi

Did you find any solution to save a file with .ans extension in Word 2003
I downloaded the Converter Pack but it doesn't contain this extension

I called MS but they told me they won't do anything about this problem

I think I will reinstall Office2000

WB
Tzardo

 

[Guest]

I tried contacting PSS. Was transferred 3 times and was still told I'd have to pay $245 to talk to somebody about this. Because I use Text To Layout Converter in a MACRO, they're convinced I need to talk to developer support. All I need is to know if they can provide the converter for me. I'd rather not rewrite the macro..

Do you know if I can take the file txtlyt32.cnv from a Word 2000 installation, register it in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Text Converter
and go about my business

Any advice on how to do that

Thanks
Bo

----- Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: ----

Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2Ftc3Rlcg==?=,

my customer has save his documents as *.ans format. He have done it with office 2002 (XP) but no
we have update his office to version 2003. There is not possible to save document as .ans format
How to fix this? Text with Layout (*.ans) was save as option in 200

This is due to the new security measures MS has been implementing. The older
converters were often produced by third parties (no longer around) and were
"unsigned". MS had to make a decision, which ones to re-write and sign and which
to not include in the product

Some of those not included "out of the box" can be found here

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/tools/BoxA07.htm

If you need a specific converter that isn't available in the 2003 converter pack,
contact MS Support and reference this KB article (read it first!)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

They should provide you the converter in question as a download

Cindy Meiste
INTER-Solutions, Switzerlan
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003
http://www.word.mvps.or

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[Graham Mayor]

You can't have your cake and your ha'penny. Microsoft removed or altered
several converters for reasons of security. Unless they can be persuaded to
produce a signed version or someone writes a utility to intercept the
prompts, you are stuck with it.

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Qm9i?=,

I tried contacting PSS. Was transferred 3 times and was still told I'd have

to pay $245 to talk to somebody about this. Because I use Text To Layout
Converter in a MACRO, they're convinced I need to talk to developer support.
All I need is to know if they can provide the converter for me. I'd rather not
rewrite the macro...
Do you have a case number for this? I don't think there's any way to suppress
the message you're getting (although if there are enough complaints/feedback on
microsoft.com they might get someone to re-write the converter and sign it so
that it's "safe"). But someone I talked to would dearly love to straighten out
PSS providing correct support when someone requests the converter pack (IOW they
shouldn't charge anything)

As to the prompt, about the only thing I can imagine, at this point in time,
would be trying to get around it using SendKeys. There's a Knowledge Base article
on microsoft.com for VB that deals with dismissing dialog boxes that might pop up
and "stall" automation. It uses a timer, and sends "{ENTER}" via SendKeys after a
certain amount of time has elapsed and the code isn't proceeding.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Klaus Linke]

As to the prompt, about the only thing I can imagine, at this

point in time, would be trying to get around it using SendKeys.

Hi Samster,

I think you can temporarily suppress alerts in your macro:

Dim tmpDisplayAlerts As Long

tmpDisplayAlerts = Application.DisplayAlerts
Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
ActiveDocument.SaveAs ...
Application.DisplayAlerts = tmpDisplayAlerts

Regards,
Klaus