At 22:37 -0400 5/6/10, Larry McMunn wrote:

>On Jun 5, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
>>  MS Word: how to save a doc file as rtf file in the SAME folder?
>
>Try this:
>
>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
>tell application "Microsoft Word"
>	set thePath to full name of active document
>	tell me
>		set oldTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
>		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
>		set newDocPath to text items 1 thru -2 of thePath & 
>"rtf" as string
>		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDs
>	end tell
>	save document 1 in newDocPath as format rtf
>end tell


First, the pathname should be Unicode text and not string, especially 
since  Nobumi is likely to create files with unstringy names:

set newDocPath to text items 1 thru -2 of thePath & "rtf" as Unicode text


and second, you can't save to a path-string.  It needs, according to 
the standard generated dictionaries, to be «[in alias] : the file in 
which to save the object», but that wording is wrong and always has 
been; for a document that does not exist you save to a 
_file_specification_, or POSIX file...

...so the following ought to work:

    set _file to (newDocPath as file specification)
    save active document in _file as format rtf

...but it doesn't, even if you create the file first, and no error is returned.

I have no solution unfortunately.

JD