Hi, I am using OLE interop to save a word document as XML (from C#) - something like: doc = app.Documents..Open(...); doc.SaveAs(...,WdSaveFormat.wdFormatXML, ...) The original document is in page layout view, but the saved XML document is in normal view. This works fine (i.e. the view is preserved) when doing it interactively. Any ideas please? Andy