Conditional word automation

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I am using c sharp language in the windows form. There are different options for each student in the same column in the database as shown in the picture. I want to mark the data I received according to the information in this column to the relevant section in the word document. How should I do this using word automation?

What I have tried:

C#

            if (fieldName == "gender" Male "x")
            {
                myMergeField.Select();
                oWord.Selection.TypeText(dr["gender"].ToString());
else if 
{
(fieldName == "gender" Female "x")
        }
}

Posted 13-Feb-24 5:43am

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Updated 14-Feb-24 6:49am

Andre Oosthuizen

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cmarcotte · Answer 1 · 2024-02-13T17:45:00

I am not expert in C#, but in VB. But, with Word and Excel, you can use their macro recorders. You will need to modify your macro to to include interop objects in macro statements, but most part of the work will already be made with macro recorder. But word macro recorder doesn't record all mouse operations. So, most of actions in word documents must be performed from keyboard.

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