Open XML text file in Microsoft Word

The Word-to-Wiki converter macro I’ve described in one of the previous posts (developed in Word 2003) worked perfectly, but when I wanted to add a Word-to-Blogger macro (along the lines of Word-to-Wiki concept, but with a different XSLT), things got complex. I didn’t want to have any whitespace between P tags generated by XSLT (Blogger interprets whitespace line breaks as implicit <br /> tags), so I wanted to generate XML, not HTML … only to find out that the default text converter used by Microsoft Word (wdOpenFormatAuto) …

Documents.Open FileName:=TxtPath, ConfirmConversions:=False, _
      ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
      Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, Encoding:=65001

… removes the XML tags (leaving only the text nodes) when importing XML files as text. Next I’ve tried the the wdOpenFormatText converter, only to find out that it cannot handle Unicode text. Great news … Finally I’ve managed to get exactly what I needed with the wdOpenFormatUnicodeText converter and msoEncodingUTF8 encoding:

Documents.Open FileName:=TxtPath, ConfirmConversions:=False, _
      ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
      Format:=wdOpenFormatUnicodeText, Encoding:=msoEncodingUTF8