How to read content from microsoft word (docx) file with alignment and font style?

Question

Hey,

Want to read content from microsoft word (docx) file with its alignment and font style. Also is it possible to extract an image present in docx file?

Any answers would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Kaustubh Deshpande

Answer 1

@Kaustubh Deshpande , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, if you want to get information from docx file, I recommend that you could install nuget-packge Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word to do it.

First, please add the using statement:

using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

Second, you could try the following code to read some content from docx file:

            Word.Application app = new Word.Application();
            object path = "test.docx";
            Word.Document doc = app.Documents.Open(ref path);

            foreach (Paragraph objParagraph in doc.Paragraphs)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(objParagraph.Range.Text);
            }

Third, we could get the image from the docx file in winform app:

 private Word.Application m_word;
        private int m_i;
       
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            object missing = Type.Missing;
            object FileName = "\test.docx";
            object readOnly = true;
            m_word = new Word.Application();
            m_word.Documents.Open(ref FileName);
            for (int i = 1; i <= m_word.ActiveDocument.InlineShapes.Count; i++)
            {
                m_i = i;
                // CopyFromClipboardShape();
                Thread thread = new Thread(CopyFromClipbordInlineShape);
                thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
                thread.Start();
                thread.Join();
            }

        }

        protected void CopyFromClipbordInlineShape()
        {
            InlineShape inlineShape = m_word.ActiveDocument.InlineShapes[m_i];
            inlineShape.Select();
            m_word.Selection.Copy();
            if (Clipboard.ContainsImage())
            {
                System.Windows.Forms.IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
                if (data.GetDataPresent(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.Bitmap))
                {
                    Image image = (Image)data.GetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.Bitmap, true);
                    image.Save("test.png");
    

                }
                else
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("The Data In Clipboard is not as image format");
                 
                }
            }
            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show("The Clipboard was empty");
                
            }
        }

Best Regards,

Jack

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