Word 2007 AutoFormat "spm" <nospam[ at ]coco.dot.co.dot.uk> 08.08.2006 22:56:27 One of the automation tasks that I need to perform in an app of ours is to import RTF texts (taken from rich tect controls) and auto-detect hyperlinks therein. Up until Word 2003 I accomplished this by using a Word doc's IDataObject interface to get the formatted RTF text in, and then to run the text through a Range object's AutoFormat method. Prior to calling AutoFormat, I set the AutoFormatPreserveStyles and AutoFormatReplaceHyperlinks properties to TRUE, and all other auto-formatting properties to FALSE. This worked fine and had the desired result. Now, with Word 2007 I find the AutoFormat method actually removes *all* formatting from the text (but it does still auto-detect hyperlinks properly). How can I fix this? All help will be much appreciated. -- Regards, Steve.

RE: Word 2007 AutoFormat chrisjen[ at ]online.microsoft.com (Chris Jensen [MS]) 14.08.2006 20:57:02 Hello Steve, Is there the possibility you can build a zip that has an installable demo of how to get the contents of a rich text control and manipulate its contents within a range object. The zip can include a text document as to how to reproduce the successful demo using Word 2003, and then how to demonstrate the problem with Word 2007. Without a working demonstration it is hard for anyone to help - as you may have noticed. The only comment I can add without such a demo is that the RTF control added through the Controls group of Word 2007 isn't the same one you have used in the past. Its contents are saved as an xml file in the packaged components that are among the multiple xml files which are part of a Word 2007 document. You can attach the zip to this thread. Regards, Chris Jensen [MS]

Re: Word 2007 AutoFormat Cindy M. <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 15.08.2006 09:13:59 Hi Steve Have you seen a reply from Chris Jensen (MSFT) in the group where you originally posted your question? From: chrisjen[ at ]online.microsoft.com (Chris Jensen [MS]) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:57:02 GMT Subject: RE: Word 2007 AutoFormat Newsgroups: microsoft.public.officedev Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

Re: Word 2007 AutoFormat "spm" <nospam[ at ]coco.dot.co.dot.uk> 20.08.2006 00:30:28 No, sorry Cindy, I haven't. I've been on vacation and just returned. Thanks for the pointer - I'll take a look now. -- Regards, Steve.

Re: Word 2007 AutoFormat "spm" <nospam[ at ]coco.dot.co.dot.uk> 20.08.2006 00:47:51 Hi Chris, I can work up a demo for you (incl. a working exe, naturally), but all my code is actually in Delphi 6. Will this be useful to you? That said, my code does not use RTF controls. What I do is this: 1. Create two Word docs through automation. The first - doc1, say - is the document I create piecemeal. This is constructed by adding and formatting text, pictures, etc., purely by using Word automation, but I also need to insert formatted text at various stages, where the formatted text originates in RTF (created by another app of ours). The second document - doc2, say - is used for getting the RTF into Word and auto-detecting URLs. 2. When I need to append the RTF source to doc1 I first get it into doc2 by using an IDataObject instance, create a range covers the text (this is in fact simply the Document property) and then run it through the AutoFormat method, after first setting only the AutoFormatPreserveStyles and AutoFormatReplaceHyperlinks properties to true. 3. Finally, I copy the doc2 content to the end of doc1, then clear out doc2 ready for the next RTF. This works perfectly for all of Word 2000 - 2003, but in Word 2007 the RTF text loses all formatting (except for the auto-detected URLs). With Word 2007, if I omit the AutoFormat call on doc2 then the RTF enters doc2 correctly via the IDataObject interface, and appears exactly as it should when copied to doc1 (missing the hyperlinks, of course). The issue is definitely with the implementation of AutoFormat in Word 2007, as any call to it results in all character and paragraph formatting being lost. In fact, I can demonstrate the problem by simplifying all of the above: just use automation to load some formatted text into a Word 2007 doc (it doesn't matter where the text comes from - just loading an already-created Word 2007 doc will do), then select it into a range and call AutoFormat. All formatting is lost. -- Regards, Steve.

Re: Word 2007 AutoFormat "spm" <nospam[ at ]coco.dot.co.dot.uk> 21.08.2006 16:36:16 Hi Chris, On further investigation, I believe I have narrowed down the issue ... it seems the AutoFormat method does work after all, but instead changes to the AutoFormatXXX properties of the Options object do not seem to stick. For instance, if I set the AutoFormatPreserveStyles to TRUE and test its value right afterwards it still shows FALSE. The same applies to all other AutoFormatXXX properties, as far as I can see. Then when I call the document's AutoFormat method, it seems to take property values from whatever the user has set via the Word 2007 GUI, rather than I set programmatically. This would appear to be a nasty bug in Word 2007, unless of course there's some changed behaviour I need to know about that affects whether the AutoFormatXXX properties can be changed... -- Regards, Steve.

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Re: Word 2007 AutoFormat "spm" <nospam[ at ]coco.dot.co.dot.uk> 22.08.2006 20:58:33 Hi Chris, Many thanks for that. I'll try the B2TR when it appears. Now, I understand you can't commit to a date, but by 'soon' are we talking days, or maybe weeks? -- Regards, Steve.

Re: Word 2007 AutoFormat "spm" <nospam[ at ]coco.dot.co.dot.uk> 18.09.2006 09:11:58 Chris, I can confirm that the B2TR does indeed resolve this issue, thanks. Unfortunately, it introduces a whole raft of new issues. I'll post about those separately. -- Regards, Steve.