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DefaultOpenFormat Property

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OpenFormat

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

Applies to | Options Object

See Also | Open Event | OpenFormat Property