Question

What I’d like to achieve is to force MS Word not to split specific strings when saving .doc or .rtf file as .xml.
For example, now from something like:

 Something: ***TABLE_NAME.COLUMN_NAME***

or

 Something: AAATABLE_NAME.COLUMN_NAMEBBB

or anything similar I get:

<w:p wsp:rsidR="00537583" wsp:rsidRDefault="00AF6BDF" wsp:rsidP="00537583">
    <w:pPr>
        <w:pStyle w:val="Default"/>
        <w:jc w:val="both"/>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
    </w:pPr>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>Something: AAA</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r wsp:rsidR="00537583">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>TABLE_NAME.</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r wsp:rsidR="00537583" wsp:rsidRPr="00537583">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t> COLUMN_NAME</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r wsp:rsidR="00537583">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>BBB</w:t>
    </w:r>
</w:p>

and what I’d like to get is e.g.:

 <w:p wsp:rsidR="00537583" wsp:rsidRDefault="00AF6BDF" wsp:rsidP="00537583">
    <w:pPr>
        <w:pStyle w:val="Default"/>
        <w:jc w:val="both"/>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
    </w:pPr>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="23"/>
            <w:sz-cs w:val="23"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>Something: AAATABLE_NAME.COLUMN_NAMEBBB</w:t>
    </w:r>
</w:p>

I’ll be grateful for any ideas that will help to bypass this.

Answer 1

Word has an option to control whethr RSID entries are saved with a document. This is a a hidden application option only accessible via the Word object model.

To prevent that those ids are generated you can e.g. open the macro editor (Alt+F11) and execute the following code in the immediate window:

Application.Options.StoreRSIDOnSave = False

Without RSIDs all text having the same formatting will be contained in a single run (I think this is what you want to have).

The RSIDs are used by Word to automatically merge documents; they don’t contain essential information needed for preserving a documents layout so saving is optional (unless you need to be able to merge documents).