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hey guys,

just a quickie that's probably been asked a million times, but i couldn't find it when searching so here goes:

i need to copy the contents of a word document and paste it to an external file (.txt) using VBA how do i go about doing this?

cheers Black Box
Nov 22 '06
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Blckbx
21 New Member
ok maybe backup was the wrong choice of words,

i'm making a cryptanalysis script which involves guessing to an extent, so if i guess the wrong set of characters and VB carries on manipulating the text and writing to the document, i want to be able to go back to the old text. so plain text is the only thing i want to be able to recover.

Black box
Nov 22 '06 #11
albertw
267 Contributor
ok maybe backup was the wrong choice of words,

i'm making a cryptanalysis script which involves guessing to an extent, so if i guess the wrong set of characters and VB carries on manipulating the text and writing to the document, i want to be able to go back to the old text. so plain text is the only thing i want to be able to recover.

Black box

hi

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  1. Private Sub document_close()
  2. ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="Original.doc", fileformat:=wdFormatDocument
  3. ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="BackUp.txt", fileformat:=wdFormatText
  4. End Sub
  5.  
put this code in your codepage belonging to ThisDocument (NOT the module)


the document will be saved as "backup.txt " and as "original.d oc", when closing the document
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