Word file format problems

[Guest]

I have been writing reports for my class using a report writing programme
which uses a word 97-2003 template format/file for my report design. I have
written over 100 reports using this format/file and then taken them to work
to put on the schools network with a usb pen. When I try to open these files
at work it prompts me to install a converter for word-when prompted to do so
the result is a load of nonsense-there are various options to try on this
converter such as unicode. ms dos, default windows-turksih, european etc etc
etc-none make any sense of teh documents. However, when I save each report as
a word 2007 document-the school network computers do open and display teh
word files correctly. Therefore, I have two queries:

What's the qucikest way to convert over 100 word files (97-2003) to Word
2007 whithout having to open each one individuallyand resave each one?

Any ideas why our school network computers are recognising these 97-30 word
files and needing a converter? And any solutions to this?

Cheers

JP

 

[Graham Mayor]

Instead of saving the files to your USB storage device save them to the hard
drive and *copy* them using Windows Explorer after establishing that you can
open them again in Word at home. At school reverse the process. Do not open
them directly from the USB device.

If these files are genuinely in Word 97-2003 format, then Word 2007 should
open them.

How are you saving them to DOCX format at home? If you are using Word 2007
then you can convert all with a macro, but it should be unnecessary. The
following assumes that DOCX is the default save format for Word 2007. Run
the macro on files saved on the hard drive!

Sub SaveAllAsDOCX()
Dim strFileName As String
Dim strDocName As String
Dim strPath As String
Dim oDoc As Document

With Dialogs(wdDialogCopyFile)
If .Display <> 0 Then
strPath = .Directory
Else
MsgBox "Cancelled by User"
Exit Sub
End If
End With

If Documents.Count > 0 Then
Documents.Close SaveChanges:=wdPromptToSaveChanges
End If
If Left(strPath, 1) = Chr(34) Then
strPath = Mid(strPath, 2, Len(strPath) - 2)
End If
strFileName = Dir$(strPath & "*.doc")

While Len(strFileName) <> 0
Set oDoc = Documents.Open(strPath & strFileName)

strDocName = ActiveDocument.FullName
intPos = InStrRev(strDocName, ".")
strDocName = Left(strDocName, intPos - 1)
strDocName = strDocName & ".docx"
oDoc.SaveAs FileName:=strDocName, _
FileFormat:=wdFormatDocumentDefault
oDoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
strFileName = Dir$()
Wend
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm (dialog access is different from
the illustrations in 2007)


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[Guest]

Thanks Graham,

Will have a go and get back to you. Thanks for yoru help.

 

[Guest]

Just a couple of things Graham-I am copying teh files from teh usb to teh
shared area at work-so they are on the hard drive, in fact I have't tried
opening them straight from teh usb at work. Secondly, Word 2007 is on my
personal computer-school still has last version of word-pre 2003 I think.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The school computer may have the Word 2007 converter installed
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
but without it older versions of Word will not open Word 2007 format files.

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[Guest]

Graham,

In fact your correct the school computer does appear to have the Word 2007
converter installed-it will open 2007 word files-dont know why it wont
recognise the word files that my report writer is churning out-they are
supposed to be 97-03 files-anyway-as I know2007 files will work, how can I
convert all my Word 97-03 files to 2007 files without having to open and save
each one.

Thanks

James

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can't, but the macro I posted earlier will speed up the process.

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[Guest]

Dear Graham,

You star! I wasn't quite sure what you were on about with macros and all
that-I ended up downloading one form the microsoft site-I think! Anyway I
have managed to convert over 150 reports today in very little time-stillno
excuse for a stinking network at school though-they need to get up to date
instead of lagging behind business as usual. Your help is greatly appreciated
and a god send to a stressed out teacher!

All the best

James