Office® XP Development with VBA

The Document Object

Each open Word document is represented by a Document object. There are two ways to get a Document object: create a new one or open an existing one. Once you are done working with the document, the object must be saved (at least in most cases) and then closed. Let's look at these tasks first, then we will examine the many tools available for manipulating document content.

Opening and Creating Documents

To create a new document, use the Documents collection's Add method. The syntax is

Dim MyDoc As Word.Document
Set MyDoc = Documents.Add(Template, NewTemplate)

The Template argument specifies the name of the template that the new document is to be based on. The NewTemplate argument specifies whether the new document is a document ...