(All of my advice is adapted from this answer about Excel interop.) There are a few important things here: 1) Never use 2 dots on the same line. Also consider an indexer as a dot Good Word.Documents d = wordApp.Documents; Word.Document aDoc = d.Open(/*…*/); BAD Word.Document aDoc = wordApp.Documents.Open(/*…*/); 2) Release all of your pointers. … Read more
To insert newlines, you have to add a Break instance to the Run. Example: run.AppendChild(new Text(“Hello”)); run.AppendChild(new Break()); run.AppendChild(new Text(“world”)); The XML produced will be something like: <w:r> <w:t>Hello</w:t> <w:br/> <w:t>world</w:t> </w:r>
Jumping in rather late in life, but thought I’d put this out anyway: Now (2015), you can use the pretty neat doc python library: https://python-docx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. And then: from docx import Document wordDoc = Document(‘<path to docx file>’) for table in wordDoc.tables: for row in table.rows: for cell in row.cells: print cell.text
here’s some code making use of late binding (declare objects rather than word.application etc). From Excel 2003, it opens a WORD document searches for string “minimum stock” moves the cursor some lines/words further expands/selects the WORD cursor pastes this WORD selection into EXCEL steps 2-5 are repeated for “Period of report:” (note that the “:” … Read more
When you create a file, eg C:\Temp\MyWordDoc.doc and write data to it using a FileStream and StreamWriter, you’re actually writing information to a text file. The doc or docx file extension causes Microsoft Word to open the file, but it is NOT in Word format, its just plain text. You need to use the MS … Read more
Definitely don’t introduce a “throw-away variable”, especially if it’s not declared, and especially if what you’re invoking is a Sub, a procedure that doesn’t return any value. Well you can, if you don’t mind a compile-time error: Expected Function or variable. Now… this behavior is extensive throughout VBA. It’s not specific to the SetHeight method. … Read more
You’re looking for Marshal.GetActiveObject. object word; try { word = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject(“Word.Application”); } catch (COMException) { Type type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID(“Word.Application”); word = System.Activator.CreateInstance(type); }
Two options: First is to just link to it, e.g. <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4346117/MyWordDocument.doc”>My Word Document</a>, the second is to use an iframe and point it to the document. For this to work, however, most browsers require that the server sends a Content-disposition: inline header with the document. If you cannot configure your web server to do … Read more
When using win32com, bear in mind that you are talking to the Word object model. You don’t need to know a lot of VBA or other languages to apply the samples to using Python; you just need to figure out which parts of the object model are being used. Let’s take the following sample (in … Read more
Embedding Foreign Objects (PDF, TXT, GIF, etc…) into Microsoft Word using OpenXml 2.0 (Well, in collaboration with COM) I got a lot from this site, so here I asked and answered my own question in order to give back a little on a topic in which I had difficulty finding answers on, hope it helps … Read more