Create a Document

On this page we will look at how to create a document using Aspose.Words or Open XML SDK.

Aspose.Words

In Aspose.Words, we normally use the Document class to create a document and the DocumentBuilder class to modify it.

The following code example shows how to create a document:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.Writeln("Hello World!");
doc.Save("CreateDocument.docx");

Open XML SDK

You can also do the same using the Open XML SDK. At the same time, note that it looks somewhat more complicated and more cumbersome.

Following are the namespaces we need to add:

using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;
using NUnit.Framework;

The following code example shows how to create a document:

public void CreateADocumentFeature()
{
	using (WordprocessingDocument wordDocument =
		WordprocessingDocument.Create(ArtifactsDir + "Create a document - OpenXML.docx",
			WordprocessingDocumentType.Document))
	{
		MainDocumentPart mainPart = wordDocument.AddMainDocumentPart();
		// Create the document structure and add some text.
		mainPart.Document = new Document();
		Body body = mainPart.Document.AppendChild(new Body());
		Paragraph para = body.AppendChild(new Paragraph());
		Run run = para.AppendChild(new Run());
		run.AppendChild(new Text("Create text in body - Create wordprocessing document"));
	}
}

You can download the sample file of this example from Aspose.Words GitHub.

For more information about Aspose.Words features please visit Create or Load a Document.