How to open word doc in rich text box

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Hi,

How to open a word doc in rich textbox.

Help me out.

Thanks in advice.

Posted 20-Jul-15 20:24pm

Baroor

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Sinisa Hajnal 21-Jul-15 2:33am

What have you tried?

Baroor 21-Jul-15 2:49am

Tried using Microsoft office Dll, but i want this without using Microsoft office Dll.

Is it possible, if yes please suggest me.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-07-20T20:47:00

You cannot, period. Not in RichTextBox.

Rich text box is based on much simpler Rich Text Format, and Word is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format[^].

You can learn how to parse Word (Open XML) document, map it to other document, anything, but once you use this data to show in RichTextBox, it won't be a Word document, not even remotely close. Note that Word is proprietary application which does not provide any libraries to be used in other applications, but let's assume that you managed to create software replicating all Word functionality, at least as a read-only software, a pure viewer, then yes, open Word, and pretty likely, RTF, but the trouble is… this software won't be RichTextBox, not even remotely close.

—SA