How to: Create New Documents
When you create a document programmatically, the new document is a native Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document object. This object does not have the additional events and data binding capabilities of a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Document host item. For more information, see Programmatic Limitations of Host Items and Host Controls.
Applies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and application-level projects for Word 2007 and Word 2010. For more information, see Features Available by Office Application and Project Type.
When you develop a document-level project, you cannot programmatically add Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Document host items to your project. In an application-level project, you can convert any Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document object to a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Document host item at run time. For more information, see Extending Word Documents and Excel Workbooks in Application-Level Add-ins at Run Time.
To create a new document based on the Normal template
The Add method has an optional Template argument to create a new document based on a template other than the Normal template. You must supply the file name and fully qualified path of the template.