DefaultOpenFormat Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Returns or sets the default file converter used to open documents. Can be a number returned by the OpenFormat property, or one of the following WdOpenFormat constants.

WdOpenFormat can be one of these WdOpenFormat constants.
wdOpenFormatAllWord
wdOpenFormatAuto
wdOpenFormatDocument
wdOpenFormatEncodedText
wdOpenFormatRTF
wdOpenFormatTemplate
wdOpenFormatText
wdOpenFormatUnicodeText
wdOpenFormatWebPages

expression.DefaultOpenFormat

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Note  Use the Format argument with the Open method to specify a file converter when you're opening a single document.

Example

This example sets the default converter for opening documents to the Word document format and then opens Forecast.doc.

Options.DefaultOpenFormat = wdOpenFormatDocument
Documents.Open FileName:="C:\Sales\Forecast.doc"
		

This example sets the default converter for opening documents to automatically determine the appropriate file converter to use when opening documents.

Options.DefaultOpenFormat = wdOpenFormatAuto
		

This example sets the default converter for opening documents to the WordPerfect 6.x format.

Options.DefaultOpenFormat = _
    FileConverters("WordPerfect6x").OpenFormat