Hello, As the title line says, I would like to make a droplet which convert a ".doc" file into a ".rtf" file, in the same folder. I always used to use this code: tell application "Microsoft Word" activate try open theFile tell front document set fname to get name set fname to my replace_doc_with_rtf(fname) save as file name (fname) file format format rtf close end tell on error errMsg display dialog errMsg return end try end tell on replace_doc_with_rtf(fname) set perl_scpt to "$_ = shift; s/\\.doc$//; s/\\./_/g; s/$/\\.rtf/; print;" return (do shell script "perl -e '" & perl_scpt & "' " & quoted form of fname) end replace_doc_with_rtf and it worked without problem, but I suddenly realized that it saves the converted file in the folder that was used the last time to save a file -- so that this code can surely work only when Word is launched just before. Otherwise, if Word saved a file in a different folder, in the current session, it will save the converted file in that folder. MS Word scripting dictionary says: save v : Save an object save reference : the object to save [in alias] : the file in which to save the object [as type class] : the file type of the document in which to save the data I tried something like tell application "Microsoft Word" activate open theFile tell front document set fname to get name set fname to my replace_doc_with_rtf(fname) save in xxx as file name (fname) file format format rtf close end tell end tell But this does not compile. And the dictionary term "[in alias]" seems odd, because the new file cannot be an alias, as far as I understand. Could any of you indicate me how to specify a folder in such cases? Thanks in advance. Best regard, Nobumi Iyanaga Tokyo, Japan