What you have to do is:
1) set the SaveOptions field to "0"
2) save using uidoc.save (doesn't really save because of the SaveOptions field)
3) get a reference to the original document using uidoc.Document
4) close the document in the Notes client using uidoc.Close
5) use ws.EditDocument to re-open the document in edit mode
Here's a code snippet for doing this:
Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument Set uidoc = workspace.CurrentDocument Dim doc As NotesDocument Set doc = uidoc.Document Call doc.ReplaceItemValue("SaveOptions", "0") uidoc.Save Set doc = uidoc.Document uidoc.Close Call workspace.EditDocument(True, doc) Call doc.RemoveItem("SaveOptions")