Editing word table using C#

Question

Hi All, I want to search a Microsoft Word document from the end and then edit the the first table that is found.To the first table that is found I want to Copy a column on the basis of column heading and then paste the same column(with a different name provided by user) in the same table and Save the documnet. I want this to be done for all the documents that user selects from a list view containing the path of documents. PLease guide me so that I can complete this task ASAP. Note:For all the documents only the last table has to be modified and I want to do this using C# Windows Application. Thanks

John Glenn · Answer

Hi, you can edit Word with C# easily using this C# / VB.NET Word component. Here is a C# code for your scenario: public static void CopyTableCells( string documentName, string sourceColumnName, string destinationColumnName) { // Use the component in free mode. ComponentInfo .SetLicense( "FREE-LIMITED-KEY" ); // Load a document from the file. var document = DocumentModel .Load(documentName, LoadOptions .DocxDefault); // Get the last table in the document. var table = ( Table )document.GetChildElements( true , ElementType .Table).LastOrDefault(); // Get source and destination column indices. int sourceColumnIndex = GetColumnIndex(table, sourceColumnName); int destinationColumnIndex = GetColumnIndex(table, destinationColumnName); // For each row, except header row - copy data from source cell to destination cell. for ( int i = 1; i { var row = table.Rows[i]; var sourceCell = row.Cells[sourceColumnIndex]; var destinationCell = row.Cells[destinationColumnIndex]; destinationCell.Blocks.Clear(); foreach ( var block in sourceCell.Blocks) destinationCell.Blocks.Add(block.Clone( true )); } // Save the document to a file. document.Save( "Document.docx" , SaveOptions .DocxDefault); // Open a file with Microsoft Word. Process .Start( "Document.docx" ); } // Utility method to get column index from column name. private static int GetColumnIndex( Table table, string columnName) { var headerRow = table.Rows[0]; for ( int i = 0; i if (headerRow.Cells[i].Blocks.Cast Paragraph >(0).Inlines.Cast Run >(0).Text == columnName) return i; return -1; }

Nir Bar · Answer

Word documents can be edited once you have the proper references and 'using' statements. Pseudo code of what you need goes something like: using Microsoft.Office.Core; using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word; public class WordTableEditor { public EditDoc( String file) { WordApplication app = new Application(); Documents documents = app.Documents; Document doc = documents.Open ( file); Tables tables = doc.Tables; Table table = tables.Item[ tables.Count]; // Word's Item is 1-based Column column = table.Columns.Add(); // TODO: Copy cell by cell ... document.Save(); } } Full documentation (though not complete as one would expect) can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word%28office.11%29.aspx Please mark this as answer if it helps you Nir