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title: "Convert Content"
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# Convert Content

### General

This type of action can be used to convert content (such as a report document or an external file) to another file type. The converted file will be available as a new report document within the [Task](/release35/docs/tasks).

### Properties

This type of action has the following properties:

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Content Type | The type of content you want to convert. When selecting *Report Document* you can select a previously created report document; when selecting *External File* you can specify an [Expression](/release35/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) that returns a [String](/release35/docs/string) that contains the path to the external file to convert. |
| New Document Name | The name of the report document that contains the converted file. |
| The name of the report document that contains the converted file. | An [Expression](/release35/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) that returns a [String](/release35/docs/string) that contains the title of the new report document. The document title should be a short description of the report document (e.g. *Monthly Report* 2020/01 for *David Laychak*); the document title will for instance be used in the [Library](/release35/docs/library) of the [Hub](/release35/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-hub). If the source content is a report document you can leave this expression empty in which case the new report document will get the same title as the source report document. |
| Target File Type | The file type to convert to. |

### Supported Conversions

The action supports the following conversions:

| File Type | Can Be Tonverted To |
| --- | --- |
| BMP Image | JPEG, PNG |
| JBMP Imagee | BMP, PNG |
| HTML Document | PDF |
| Microsoft Excel Workbook | Microsoft Excel Workbook with Macros, PDF |
| Microsoft Excel Workbook with Macros | Microsoft Excel Workbook (macros contained in the source file will be removed), PDF |
| Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation | PDF |
| Microsoft Word Document | PDF, HTML Document |
| PNG Image | BMP, JPEG |

If you try to perform an unsupported conversion, the execution of the action will fail with an error message.