DefaultOpenFormat Property
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 = wdOpenFormatAutoThis example sets the default converter for opening documents to the WordPerfect 6.x format.
Options.DefaultOpenFormat = _
FileConverters("WordPerfect6x").OpenFormat