C# Word template add information to various cells

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I have a Microsoft Word template in C#/visualstudio. I added a button and a table with various cells. I want that one cell populates with certain string, another cell to populate with string and so on, not necessarily the cell containing the button. I also would like to validate the content of cells if changed, so I'd like to know if there is some kind of event which I could use on "cell change" or something like that.

How can read or write text to cells in a word document template in C#/Visual Studio?
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Posted 28-May-13 10:25am

mcabel

Updated 29-May-13 3:39am

Kenneth Haugland

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-May-13 17:22pm

Sorry, this is not a question. What's the problem?
—SA

mcabel 29-May-13 9:36am

How do I programatically add text to a cell in a word template in visual studio?

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Solution 2

How about using Open XML SDK? Please see:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30425[^].

This way, you can support new XML-based Office formats (such as .DOCX, .XLSX), ECMA-376 standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML[^].

This is another option: http://npoi.codeplex.com/[^].

—SA

Posted 29-May-13 3:39am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-29T03:38:00

Solution 1

Have a look here:
How to: Programmatically Add Text and Formatting to Cells in Word Tables[^]
How to: Programmatically Insert Text into Word Documents[^]
How to: Insert Text into Word Documents[^]

A few other links that could be helpful:
Walkthrough: Creating a Table in Word[^]
How to: Define and Select Ranges in Documents[^]
How to: Extend Ranges in Documents[^]

Some useful information about events in MS Word:
Take Control of Microsoft Word Through Events[^]
Document Events[^]
How To Handle Events for Word by Using Visual C# .NET[^]
As you'll find out, there is no event to track cell-text change ;(

Posted 29-May-13 3:38am

Maciej Los

Updated 29-May-13 3:53am

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CHill60 29-May-13 9:40am

Beat me to it! My +5

Maciej Los 29-May-13 9:49am

Thank you, Chill ;)

mcabel 29-May-13 14:21pm

thanks, this seemed to work, although I can't seem to find how to *read*, only write from a cell. How can you read from a cell?

Edit: I found how to do it; Word.Cell objects are Read/write, so I just assign myText = cell.Range.Text;

Maciej Los 31-May-13 11:32am

You're welcome ;)