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Andy Fish - 17 Mar 2006 10:14 GMT

Hi,

I am using OLE interop to save a word document as XML (from C#) - something
like:

doc = app.Documents..Open(...);
doc.SaveAs(...,WdSaveFormat.wdFormatXML, ...)

The original document is in page layout view, but the saved XML document is
in normal view.

This works fine (i.e. the view is preserved) when doing it interactively.
Any ideas please?

Andy

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Jezebel - 17 Mar 2006 11:00 GMT

Documents aren't "in" any particular view ... it's the application itself
that determines the display. If you don't like the view, change it.

> Hi,
>
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> Andy

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Andy Fish - 17 Mar 2006 11:11 GMT

> Documents aren't "in" any particular view ... it's the application itself
> that determines the display. If you don't like the view, change it.

Not true - if you save a document in page layout view with 150% zoom and
re-open it (even on a different PC) it will open up in page layout with 150%
zoom.

in WordMl you have

<w:docPr>
<w:view w:val="print"/>
<w:zoom w:percent="150"/>

as part of the document

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Jezebel - 17 Mar 2006 12:19 GMT

Your question was about normal vs page layout. If you want to change the
topic and answer your own questions, why bother with a forum?

>> Documents aren't "in" any particular view ... it's the application itself
>> that determines the display. If you don't like the view, change it.
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> as part of the document

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Andy Fish - 17 Mar 2006 14:57 GMT

sorry if there's been any confusion. Just to clarify

Background: When a word document is saved, the current view settings (which
mode and current zoom level) are saved as part of the document, and these
are used next time the document is opened.

Problem: When I operate word from C# using OLE and do a 'save as', the saved
document always has normal view and 100% zoom, not the settings of the
original document

is there any way to avoid this behaviour and retain the view settings of the
original document, as would happen if I did the 'save as' manually?

> Your question was about normal vs page layout. If you want to change the
> topic and answer your own questions, why bother with a forum?
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>> as part of the document

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 09 Apr 2006 17:06 GMT

Hi Andy,

No idea if you're still around or have gotten to the bottom of this problem?

> sorry if there's been any confusion. Just to clarify
>
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> is there any way to avoid this behaviour and retain the view settings of the
> original document, as would happen if I did the 'save as' manually?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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