Word does not just do a straight forward creation of a single file when you save a document. When you open a Word document it actually creates a temp file and write any changes you make to that, until you click Save and thats when it updates the original file. I presume when you create a new document it does a similar thing and creates some temp files then just renames one of them to the actual name of the document. If you are only monitoring for Created events then try monitoring LastModified as well and see what you get