Convert Word documents using PowerShell

Description

This script converts Word compatible documents to a selected format utilizing the Word SaveAs function. Each file is converted by a single dedicated Word COM instance.

The script converts either all documents in a single folder matching an include-filter or a single file.

Currently supported target document types:

• Default –> Word 2016
• PDF
• XPS
• HTML

The conversion is handled by Word itself, utilizing the SaveAs method.

The Word.Document.SaveAs method supports the following wdFormat values:

Name	Value	Description
wdFormatDocument	0	Microsoft Office Word 97 – 2003 binary file format.
wdFormatDocument97	0	Microsoft Word 97 document format.
wdFormatTemplate	1	Word template format.
wdFormatTemplate97	1	Word 97 template format.
wdFormatText	2	Microsoft Windows text format.
wdFormatTextLineBreaks	3	Windows text format with line breaks preserved.
wdFormatDOSText	4	Microsoft DOS text format.
wdFormatDOSTextLineBreaks	5	Microsoft DOS text with line breaks preserved.
wdFormatRTF	6	Rich text format (RTF).
wdFormatEncodedText	7	Encoded text format.
wdFormatUnicodeText	7	Unicode text format.
wdFormatHTML	8	Standard HTML format.
wdFormatWebArchive	9	Web archive format.
wdFormatFilteredHTML	10	Filtered HTML format.
wdFormatXML	11	Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
wdFormatXMLDocument	12	XML document format.
wdFormatXMLDocumentMacroEnabled	13	XML document format with macros enabled.
wdFormatXMLTemplate	14	XML template format.
wdFormatXMLTemplateMacroEnabled	15	XML template format with macros enabled.
wdFormatDocumentDefault	16	Word default document file format. For Word, this is the DOCX format.
wdFormatPDF	17	PDF format.
wdFormatXPS	18	XPS format.
wdFormatFlatXML	19	Open XML file format saved as a single XML file.
wdFormatFlatXML	20	Open XML file format with macros enabled saved as a single XML file.
wdFormatFlatXMLTemplate	21	Open XML template format saved as a XML single file.
wdFormatFlatXMLTemplateMacroEnabled	22	Open XML template format with macros enabled saved as a single XML file.
wdFormatOpenDocumentText	23	OpenDocument Text format.
wdFormatStrictOpenXMLDocument	24	Strict Open XML document format.

Implemented document formats are shown in bold.

Examples

# EXAMPLE
# Convert all .doc files in E:\temp to Default
.\Convert-WordDocument.ps1 -SourcePath E:\Temp -IncludeFilter *.doc 

# EXAMPLE
# Convert all .doc files in E:\temp to XPS
.\Convert-WordDocument.ps1 -SourcePath E:\Temp -IncludeFilter *.doc -TargetFormat XPS

# EXAMPLE# Convert a single document to Word default format
.\Convert-WordDocument.ps1 -SourcePath E:\Temp\MyDocument.doc

Version History

• 1.0, Initial community release
• 1.1, Updated Word cleanup code

Links

• Download and follow at Github: https://github.com/Apoc70/Convert-WordDocument
• WdSaveFormat Enumeration

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