Re: OLE Automation: question about Word SaveAs

From: Matt Garrish (matthew.garrish_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:30:53 -0400

"Greg Howard" <grghoward@email.com> wrote in message
news:db1f050e.0407020733.7ff6582f@posting.google.com...
> I am trying to work on a project where I have to open a Word document
> and convert it back to WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. I have found a
> machine that has not had the Word XP SP3 installed, so I can still do
> the SaveAs command, but when I save as WP Word will pop a message box
> asking me to confirm that some formatting may be lost and do I want to
> continue. Before I try to automate this process any further can
> anyone guide to a place where I can turn off this confirmation
> message?
>

Have you tried setting the DisplayAlerts property on the Word object you
create? There is no way to suppress all error messages, though, so no
guarantees it will work:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;259971

Matt

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