How to create a new Office Doc

Question

I'm beating my head against the wall thinking "This CANNOT be that hard", but I can't find the answer. 

I am just getting started with the OpenXml SDK, and I have what should be a simple task: I want to read in a Word Template file (.dotx), perform some manipulations on the content, and write it back out as a new Word document (.docx), with a different file name. Disregard the manipulations for the moment. How do I save the package as a new filename?  All the examples read in a file, perform manipulations,and use XmlDocument.Save to write it back out, but I can't find a way to change the file name that it's written to.  The TargetPath and TargetName properties of the MainDocumentPart are read only, so I can't just change those.

I appreciate the help.

Answer 1

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Thanks for your questions!

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Bill Wesse

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Escalation Engineer

Answer 2

Dave,
I didn't see a reply on this so I thought I would toss out some info. The first thing you should know is that this forum is intended for the Open Specifications found here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc203350.aspx. For OpenXML I would ask in one of the standard .NET development forums.

However I did some research on this. You are correct that the TargetName and other properties are read-only and generated at the time the OpenXMLPart is opened. However rather than using actual file names I would use a stream instead. I would leave the stream attached to the OpenXML document but change where the stream points to when you do a save. Check out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/documentformat.openxml.packaging.wordprocessingdocument.open(office.14).aspx

WordprocessingDocument.Open Method (DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging)

 Overload List

Name	Description
WordprocessingDocument.Open (Package)	Create a new instance of the WordprocessingDocument class from the spcified package.
WordprocessingDocument.Open (Stream, Boolean)	Create a new instance of the WordprocessingDocument class from the IO stream.
WordprocessingDocument.Open (String, Boolean)	Create a new instance of the WordprocessingDocument class from the specified file.

I hope this helps.
Steve Smegner
Application Development Consulting Group