Question : ActiveDocument.SaveAs getting error message

Hello - this code does a simple, one-letter mail merge, and worked fine, without the SaveAs, but the client wants to save the result on his network. The ActiveDocument.SaveAs gets the following error message:

Object doesn't support this property or method

I thought it might need the named argument, then maybe that it didn't like the file name path I was stringing together, but it still gets the same error.

What am I missing, please? (this VBA is being run from Access 2003, to Word 2003)

Thanks

Mark

Code Snippet:

         
             Dim objWord As Word.Document
    Set objWord = GetObject("C:\JRT\Docs\Submittal Letter.doc", "Word.Document")
    objWord.Application.Visible = True
    
    objWord.MailMerge.OpenDataSource _
        Name:=GetCurrentDBNamePath_TSB(), _
        LinkToSource:=True, _
        SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM [tblJobsCandsMMrgDSrc]"
    
    objWord.MailMerge.Execute
    
    'objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=strLtrName
    objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="C:\testsave.doc"
    
    objWord.Close

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Answer : ActiveDocument.SaveAs getting error message

I always like to start with an Application object and open files from there.

Dim objWordApp As Word.Application
Dim objWordDoc As Word.Document
Set objWordApp = CreateObject"Word.Application")

Set objWordDoc = objWordApp.Documents.Open("C:\JRT\Docs\Submittal Letter.doc", "Word.Document")
objWordApp .Visible= True

That way I don't get confused about the object type. A document object doesn't have an ActiveDocument method/Property

I think this is what you meant.

objWord.Application.ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="C:\testsave.doc"