win32 problem interacting with word97

[Chin Huang]

In article <Xns91DE7E01D2955andrewdarwinwarscom at 62.253.162.103>,
Andrew Brown  <killspam at darwinwars.com> wrote:
>I am trying to convert a couple of hundred MS word 97  files to html, and 
>then reformat them into a template. 
>
>Mostly, this works, but there are some which contain accented letters, 
>and the Word html converter barfs on these in a peculiarly irritating 
>way: it puts up a dialogue box with a message saying 
>
>"This document contains characters that are not in the current language 
>encoding. To preserve them, choose cancel and select the appropriate 
>language encoding. For multilingual documents, use UTF-8."
>
>It is possible to press "OK" or "cancel" or any damn thing if you can see 
>the dialogue box; but my program can't see it, and goes on trying to get 
>word to process the next file until, after about 30 seconds python 
>crashes completely. Only then do I see the dialogue box which has caused 
>the trouble. 

Try setting the DisplayAlerts property of the Application object to 0.
Word will not display any dialog boxes.  It will choose the default
action and continue the operation.