Apache POI Word - Document

Here the term 'document' refers to a MS-Word file. After completion of this chapter, you will be able to create new documents and open existing documents using your Java program.

Create a Document

First of all, let us create a Document using the referenced classes discussed in the earlier chapters. By following the previous chapter, create a Document first, and then we can save to disk.

The following code snippet is used to create a document −

//Blank Document
XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(); 
		
//Write the Document in file system
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( new File("example.docx"));
document.write(out);

Example - Creating a Blank Document

The following simple program is used to create a blank MS-Word document −

ApachePoiDocDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;

public class ApachePoiDocDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception  {
      //Blank Document
      XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(); 
		
      //Write the Document in file system
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( new File("example.docx"));
      document.write(out);
      out.close();
      document.close();
      System.out.println("example.docx written successully");
   }
}

Output

If your system environment is configured with the POI library, it will compile and execute to generate a blank Word document file named example.docx in your current directory and display the following output in the command prompt −

example.docx written successfully