Hello again, I am more and more intrigued. I found a document in Internet (in Japanese) explaining AppleScript scripting with MS Word. It says: You can execute an AppleScript like this: save as active document file name "Temp.doc" where file name must be the name of the file or its file path. So, I tried the following code: set fpath to "Macintosh HD:Users:[me]:Documents:Backup:mydocfile.doc" set convert_fpath to "Macintosh HD:Users:[me]:Documents:mydocfile.rtf" tell application "Microsoft Word" activate open fpath save as active document file name convert_fpath file format format rtf close active document end tell and it worked perfectly. Then I tried: set fpath to "Macintosh HD:Users:[me]:Documents:Backup:mydocfile.doc" set convert_fpath to my replace_doc_with_rtf_MacPath(fpath) tell application "Microsoft Word" activate open fpath save as active document file name convert_fpath file format format rtf close active document end tell on replace_doc_with_rtf_MacPath(fpath) set perl_scpt to "$_ = shift; s/\\.doc$//; s/$/\\.rtf/; print;" return (do shell script "perl -e '" & perl_scpt & "' " & quoted form of fpath) end replace_doc_with_rtf_MacPath Now, it says: Microsoft Word got an error: active document doesn't understand the save as message. I don't understand at all. What am I doing wrong...? Thank you in advance for any insight. Best regard, Nobumi Iyanaga Tokyo, Japan On Jun 5, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote: > Hello, > > As the title line says, I would like to make a droplet which > convert a ".doc" file into a ".rtf" file, in the same folder. > > I always used to use this code: > > tell application "Microsoft Word" > activate > try > open theFile > tell front document > set fname to get name > set fname to my replace_doc_with_rtf(fname) > save as file name (fname) file format format rtf > close > end tell > on error errMsg > display dialog errMsg > return > end try > end tell > > on replace_doc_with_rtf(fname) > set perl_scpt to "$_ = 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