Copying contents of Word doc to newly created Word doc from excel VBA

Question

I am trying to use excel data to perform various tasks on a word document. However, this will be used by other people, so I wanted to copy all contents from the word doc (an

Answer 1

When you find yourself using an existing document as the basis for creating new documents it's time to consider saving that document as a Word Template. This is a particular type of file (*.dotx or *.dotm) that may contain

• boiler-plate text
• Building blocks with additional boiler-plate to be inserted as required
• styles (formatting command sets)
• customized keyboard shortcuts
• Ribbon customizations
• VBA code (macros, in *.dotm, only)

that will be inherited and/or shared by all documents generated from the template.

In order to create a new document from a template, use the Documents.Add method, specifying the path and file name:

Dim wdDoc as Word.Document
Set wdDoc = Documents.Add(path & filename) 
'From outside Word: Set wdDoc = wdApplication.Documents.Add

This will create a new document from the template, copying the complete template content without affecting the template, itself.

Note: You can also use a "plain document" (*.docx) with the Documents.Add method and it will copy the content. It will not, however, link back to that document so it can't share macros, for instance.