> 6 Converting to print RTF > 6.17 Managing Word output after conversion > 6.17.1 Supporting more than one version of Word
If you are trying to support multiple users who have a variety of Word versions, you cannot just give them RTF files; Microsoft made sure of that. Instead, you must provide documents in .doc or .docx format.
To produce Word files in .doc or .docx format from RTF files generated by Mif2Go:
1. Load each generated RTF file into the version of Word for which Mif2Go produced it; see §6.3 Adjusting output for different versions of Word).
2. Wait until Word has counted up pages to the end, and stops; watch the counter in the status bar.
5. Save the file from Word as .doc (or .docx for Word 2007 and later versions).
Or, you can create a Word VBA macro that will do all that for you. In Mif2Go you would use a SystemEndCommand (see §34.4.1 Specifying system commands) to open RTF files in Word and invoke a Word macro like the following macro for .doc output:
' Macro recorded 5/31/2010 by Omni Systems
nameStr = Replace(ActiveDocument.FullName, ".rtf", ".doc")
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileFormat:=wdFormatDocument, _
FileName:=nameStr, LockComments:=False
See the Word VBA reference for details. Word files in .doc or .docx format can be distributed to users who have any version of Word.