OpenFormat Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

constant, or it can be a unique number that represents an external file converter. Read-only Long.

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

expression.OpenFormat

expression    Required. An expression that returns a FileConverter object.

Example

This example displays the unique format value and the format name for the converters you can use to open documents.

For Each fc In FileConverters
    If fc.CanOpen = True Then _
        MsgBox fc.OpenFormat & vbCr & fc.FormatName
Next fc
		

This example opens the file named "Data.wp" by using the WordPerfect 6x file converter.

Documents.Open FileName:="C:\Data.wp", _
    Format:=FileConverters("WordPerfect6x").OpenFormat