On Jun 6, 2010, at 2:05 AM, John Delacour wrote:

> 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



John,
I believe that with 10.6 (or 10.5, I am not sure, someone might clarify that) 

Unicode text=text=string


so x as string is as good as x as Unicode text.

Deivy Petrescu
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