How to save selected pages/ranges as new document in Word?

In a Word document that contains dozens of pages, you may sometimes want to save only a part of the content or selected pages as a new document. This can be useful for creating summaries, sharing specific sections, or simply organizing your work more efficiently.

In this article, we introduce two methods to help you easily extract and save specific parts of your document into a new file:

Save selected pages/ranges as new document with VBA code

Save selected pages/ranges as new document with Kutools for Word

Save selected pages/ranges as new document with VBA code

Generally, you can select the needed pages or ranges then copy and paste them as a new document, but here is a code also can help you save selected pages or ranges as new Word document.

1. Select the pages or contents you want to save as new one, press Alt + F11 key to enable Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, then copy and paste below code to the new Module script.

VBA: Save selection as new document

Sub SaveSelected()
'UpdatebyExtendoffice20181115
    Selection.Copy
    Documents.Add , , wdNewBlankDocument
    Selection.Paste
    ActiveDocument.Save
    'ActiveDocument.Close
End Sub

3. Press F5 key to run the code, then the selection will be pasted to a new document, at the meantime, a dialog pops out to remind you save this new file in a folder as you need.

4. Name the new file and choose a folder to place it, click Save to finish.

Save selected pages/ranges as new document with Kutools for Word

With Kutools for Word’s Export Range to File utility, you can save part of document to a new one as Word file, PDF file, Text file or HTML file.

After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Word Now!)

1. Select the ranges or pages you want to save as new document or other files, click Kutools Plus > Export/Import > Export Range to File.

2. In the Export Range to File dialog, select a path to save the new document in Save path section, then choose the file type you want to save as in File Type section, in File Options section, check the option as you need.

1. Click Ok. Name the pdf file in the popping up Kutools for Word dialog.

Then the selection has been saved as new document.

Tip: if you check Open the file after exporting checkbox, the new file will be opened after finishing exporting.

  Export Range to file

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