• Call the Save method of the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word..::.Document class. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument class in your project.

  Visual Basic

  Me.Save()
  
  

  C#

  this.Save();
  
  

• Call the _Document..::.Save method for the active document. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument or ThisAddIn class in your project.

  Visual Basic

  Me.Application.ActiveDocument.Save()
  
  

  C#

  this.Application.ActiveDocument.Save();
  
  

If you are not sure whether the document you want to save is the active document, you can refer to it by its name.

• Use the document name as an argument to the Documents collection. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument or ThisAddIn class in your project.

  Visual Basic

  Me.Application.Documents("C:\Test\NewDocument.doc").Save()
  
  

  C#

  object fileName = @"C:\Test\NewDocument.doc"; 
  this.Application.Documents.get_Item(ref fileName).Save(); 
  
  

• Call the SaveAs method of the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word..::.Document class, using a fully qualified path and file name. If a file by that name already exists in that folder, it is silently overwritten. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument class in your project.

  Note:
  The SaveAs method throws an exception if a target directory does not exist or if there are other problems saving a file. It is a good practice to use a try…catch block around the SaveAs method or inside a calling method.

  Visual Basic

  Me.SaveAs("C:\Test\NewDocument.doc")
  
  

  C#

  object fileName = @"C:\Test\NewDocument.doc"; 
  
  this.SaveAs(ref fileName,
      ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
      ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
      ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
  
  

• Call the SaveAs method of the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word..::.Document that you want to save, using a fully qualified path and file name. If a file by that name already exists in that folder, it is silently overwritten.

  The following code example saves the active document with a new name. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument or ThisAddIn class in your project.

  Note:
  The SaveAs method throws an exception if a target directory does not exist or if there are other problems saving a file. It is a good practice to use a try…catch block around the SaveAs method or inside a calling method.

  Visual Basic

  Me.Application.ActiveDocument.SaveAs("C:\Test\NewDocument.doc")
  
  

  C#

  object fileName = @"C:\Test\NewDocument.doc";
  
  this.Application.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(ref fileName,
      ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
      ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
      ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);