How to read and manipulate citations in a word document using VSTO add-in?

Question

Hi, I am trying to build a word add-in using VSTO, I need to figure out a way and read citations in my word document in my c# code (Specifically the month and year of a citation) in order to do my further processing on it.

I'm new to VSTO, so any help regarding reading and manipulating citations will be really appreciated.

Thank you.

Answer 1

We can use WdFieldType Enum to find Citation.

I did not use VSTO but used a console app to write a piece of code, but you should be able to easily modify it to what you need.

        Application application = null;  
        Document document = null;  
        try  
        {  
            application = new Application();  
            document = application.Documents.Open(@"C:\...\1.docx");  

            string str = "test";  
            foreach (Field field in document.Fields)  
            {  
                if (field.Type == WdFieldType.wdFieldCitation)  
                {  
                    Range range = field.Result;  
                    if (range.Text == str)  
                    {  
                        range.Underline = WdUnderline.wdUnderlineSingle;  
                    }   
                   
                }  
            }  
        }  
        catch (Exception ex)  
        {  
            Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);  
        }  
        finally  
        {  
            document.Save();  
            document.Close();  
            application.Quit();  
        }  

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