MS Word Integration in C#?

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I have tried to look around for documentation on this subject, but I haven't really found a concrete answer. Just answers to problems that I am not really facing.

I want to pull some patterns and phrases from a database and generate a docx (or doc?) file in MS Word using C#. It's part of a school project. But the integration part doesn't seem to be very well documented, or I am looking in the wrong places.

Any help with this?

Actually, it's a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/10412/2065121 — Roger Rowland, Apr 11 '13 at 11:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '13 at 11:51

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The magic word for google purposes is "Interop". Try this as a starting point:

http://www.dotnetperls.com/word

answered Apr 11 '13 at 11:51

Colin Pickard

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Thanks dude. What a weird name. Interop. – OmniOwl Apr 11 '13 at 11:55
You're welcome. MS Word is not always the best way of making a document from C# though. Check out this answer for a good overview: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10423 – Colin Pickard Apr 11 '13 at 12:00
The thing is that the requirements says MS Word. So have to use it, like it or not ;) – OmniOwl Apr 11 '13 at 16:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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There are basically two ways to create word documents programmatically:

Create the documents by calling (and starting) word programmatically
Create the word document in the open XML format readable by Word.

For more info see similar questions here on stackoverflow: How to create word docs programmatically from a template

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Apr 11 '13 at 11:52

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '13 at 11:53

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Try use Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office link

It provides easy way to work with docx file. After words docx format is simple zipped xml file.

answered Apr 11 '13 at 11:53

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