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Working with Word document content objectsPosted on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 at 7:32 am by Ty Anderson.

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Microsoft Word is about the authoring of documents. Documents contain pages, paragraphs, sentences and

more. Today, I want to wade into the waters of manipulating Word document content. The plan is to get

your feet wet by providing an overview of the key objects along with code samples.

Continuing the fine tradition of all Office applications (OneNote being the exception), Word has an

extensive and mature object model. My goal is to show “a way” to accomplish some tasks in Microsoft

Word. These samples are not necessarily, “the way” to do it. There is more than one way to achieve the

same results.

Today, we are concerned with the structure of a Word document… not its stylings and presentation (I’ll

concern ourselves with that topic next).

Word document content objects

Accessing document content objects with code

Working with familiar Word content objects

Document content objects

Let’s look at the objects that combine together to construct a Word document.

Document :: The document represents a single, solitary Word document. This is the parent object for allcontent within a Word document file. It lives in an appropriately named collection called Documents. I

covered the document object in a previous article – Word application and base objects.

Section :: Documents can contain multiple sections. This is how you apply different formatting, layout,

and header/footer options to a Word document… by creating sections and formatting them differently.

Page :: Represents a single page within a document. A page can reside within a Range.

Paragraph :: A single paragraph of content. A paragraph can reside within a Selection, Document, or

Range and is accessible via the Paragraphs collection object. Paragraphs also contain the formatting for

content residing above it. Don’t ponder over that last sentence too much, I will explain it further in my

next article.

Sentence :: This object does not exist… strange as that might seem. Instead, there is the Paragraphs

collection object. This collection contains a collection of Range objects, which in turn, contain all the

sentences for the Range. Confused? The code samples will help bring focus to the picture.

Selection :: This object contains the content selected either by the user or via code. It also is the

insertion point if no selection exists. The insertion point is where the cursor blinks in the Word UI to

inform the user of their location within the document.

Range :: Think of this object like real‐estate. It contains a contiguous section of a document. Perhaps its

two most popular properties are Start and End. They contain ranges starting and ending character

positions within the Word document.

There are more “content” objects than these but the list above are the major objects that provide access

to everything else.

Accessing Word document content objects with code

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I want to give you a lot of VB.NET code samples today. I’ll start with the Range object and keep going as

long as I have paper. By the end of the samples, my hope is you will have a general idea of how to access

and edit content within a Word document.

The Range object

The Word object model is extensive and more than a little complex. The best way to figure out how to

make things happen via code is to learn to think like Word thinks. The quickest way to achieve this goal is

to master the Range and the Selection objects. I covered the selection object in this article so I will focus

on the Range object. Just know that together, these two objects allow you to select and find Word

content.

Enumerate paragraphs in a range

This method loops through all the paragraphs in the active document and reverses their order in a new

document.

Private Sub EnumerateParagraphs()

Dim curDoc As Word.Document = WordApp.ActiveDocument

Dim newDoc As Word.Document

Dim rng As Word.Range

Dim str As String = ""

Dim i As Integer

rng = curDoc.Content

i = rng.Paragraphs.Count()

Do Until i = 0

str = str & rng.Paragra phs.Item(i) .Range.Text & vbCrLf

i = i ‐ 1

Loop

newDoc = WordApp.Documents.Add

newDoc.Range().Text = str

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(rng)

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(curDoc)

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(newDoc)

The key is the use of the Range object and all the document content. The code first grabs all the

document content and assigns it to a Range variable (rng). Then the code finds out how many paragraphs

exist and loops backwards to create a string. This string is then inserted into a new document. It’s a good

bar trick that only works in nerd bars.

Select the current page range

In this sample, we use a Range object that’s buried deeper in the Word object model. The reason for this

sample is that I want to point out that the Range object is darn near everywhere within Word.

Private Sub SelectedPageRange()

Dim curDoc As Word.Document

curDoc = WordApp.ActiveDocument

curDoc.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Select()


End Sub

In this procedure, I employ the predefined “page” bookmark. This is a standard Word bookmark that always

exists and allows easy selection of the page containing the current focus (or selection).

You can learn more about predefined bookmarks at MSDN.

Enumerate sentences in a range

This one is similar to paragraphs but we switch sentences for paragraphs. The idea is the same… create a

new document that contains the sentences in reverse order.

Private Sub EnumerateSentences()




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Dim i As Integer

rng = curDoc.Content

i = rng.Sentences.Count()

Do Until i = 0

str = str & rng.Sentenc es.Item(i). Text

i = i ‐ 1

Loop


newDoc.Range().Text = str.ToUpper

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(rng) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(curDoc)


End Sub

To mix it up, the final document’s text is upper case. I know, this is dazzling trickery.

The takeaway is that the Range object contains a section of the Word document. Within it are major items

like paragraphs and sentences.

The Section object

Documents can contain multiple sections. Sections allow you to define different page layouts and

header/footer schemes.

Enumerate sections

You can loop through document sections by accessing the Sections collection. This collection resides

directly beneath the Document object.

Private Sub EnumerateSections()




Dim i As Integer


For i = 1 To curDoc.Sections.Count

str = str & "SECTION " & i & vbCr

str = str & vbTab & "start = " & curDoc.Sections(i).Range.Start

str = str & vbTab & "end = " & curDoc.Sections(i).Range.End & vbCrLf Next





End Sub

This procedure builds a string that 1) lists each document section and 2) contains the section’s Start and

End character position. Notice the use of the Range object to read this information.

Create a new section

When building Word documents via code, you will likely need to create a new section. This procedure will

do the trick.

Private Sub CreateSection()



curDoc.Sections.Add(WordApp.Selection.Range)


End Sub

This sample inserts a section break at the current selection (or cursor) location. Again, notice the use of

the Range property. You can easily grab a different range within the document and pass it as the location

of the page break.


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The Page object

The page object resides in a “funny” location. Not “ha ha” funny… more like “why the hell is it here?”

funny. You access document pages via the Document.ActiveWindow.Panes collection. Why? Because these

are the rules.

Enumerate pages

Someday you might want to loop through all document pages and perform some very specific business logic

on them. This code does exactly that.

Private Sub EnumeratePages() Dim curDoc As Word.Document


Dim pgs As Word.Pages


Dim i As Integer


pgs = curDoc.ActiveWindow.Panes(1).Pages

For i = 1 To pgs.Count

str = "PAGE " & i & vbCr

str = str & vbTab & "height = " & pgs.Item(i).Height

str = str & vbTab & "width = " & pgs.Item(i).Width & vbCrLf

Next



Marshal.ReleaseComObject(pgs)



End Sub

Here, the business logic is to create a string that contains the height and width of each page and then

display it in a new document. Your business logic will probably be more complex than this. Consider this

procedure a starter kit for processing document pages.

Insert a page break

To create a page, you create a page break.

Private Sub InsertPageBreak()

Dim sel As Word.Selection

sel = WordApp.Selection

sel.InsertBreak(Type:=Word.WdBreakType.wdPageBreak)

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(sel)

End Sub

I start by referencing the current insertion point via the Selection object. I then invoke the InsertBreak

method and specify a page break. Walla! We have a new page.

Working with familiar (some) Word content objects

Now that you know the basics of working with the Range, Section, and Page objects, let’s look at working

with typical Word content like tabless, comments, & text.

Insert a table

I use tables all the time. I can see how it would be useful to have a procedure that inserts a table exactly

how I like it.

Private Sub InsertTable(rowCount As Integer, columnCount As Integer)


Dim table As Word.Table

table = curDoc.Tables.Add(WordApp.Selection.Range, rowCount, columnCount)

table.Cell(1, 1).Range.Text = "Hello Table"

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(table)


End Sub


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In this case, I like a table with 1 column and 7 rows and 0 formatting. The Tables collection resides under

the Document object. To add a new table, you call the collection’s Add method and specify its location

(via a Range object), number of rows, and number of columns.

Enumerate comments

Authoring a quality document of any type (blog, article, report, proposal, etc.) is a collaborative effort.

Comments are key to the collaborative process. If you receive your document after this process and it is

littered with helpful comments for improving it… the following code will come in handy.

Private Sub EnumerateComments()


For i = 1 To curDoc.Comments.Count

curDoc.Comments.Item(i).Range.Text = _

curDoc.Comments.Item(i).Range.Text & vbCrLf & _

"Corrected. It's all good now!"

Next


End Sub

Here, I loop through the Comments collection. This collection also resides directly under the Document

object. For each comment, I insert a comment below the existing comment text.

Create a comment

Creating a comment is straight‐forward. The approach below utilizes the current selection’s range as the

insertion point.

Private Sub CreateComment(commentText As String)

WordApp.Selection.Comments.Add(WordApp.Selection.Range, commentText)

End Sub

The text for the comment needs to be passed as the procedure’s parameter.

You can also create comments by calling Document.Comments.Add. If you do that, you need to pass a

Range to specify where to insert the comment.

Delete all comments

Deleting all comments is delightfully easy. There is a method that takes care of them.

Private Sub DeleteComments()


curDoc.DeleteAllComments()


End Sub

There is no need to loop through the Comments collection.

Insert textTo insert text, you can utilize the Selection and Range objects.

Private Sub InsertText(textToInsert As String)

WordApp.Selection.InsertAfter(textToInsert)

'WordApp.Selection.InsertBefore(textToInsert)

'WordApp.ActiveDocument.Range.InsertAfter(textToInsert)

End Sub

In this sample, I utilize the current selection to insert the passed string after the current selection. I’ve

include commented code to show how you can chose to InsertBefore. Also, I’ve shown how to do the same

with the Range object.

Find text


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Finding text is a core competency in Word solution development. This sample performs search and replace.

Private Sub FindText()


rng = WordApp.ActiveDocument.Content

With rng.Find

.ClearFormatting()

.Execute(FindText:="Hello Table", _

ReplaceWith:="Found Table", _

Replace:=Word.WdReplace.wdReplaceAll)

End With

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(rng)End Sub

The procedure sets a Range object that contains all document Content. It then executes a Find & Replace

action to replace the text inserted in the InsertTable method from earlier.

Copy and paste text

If you have text in a Word document, you will need to move it around.

Private Sub CopyAndPasteText()



'Dim sel As Word.Selection

rng = curDoc.Range(curDoc.Paragraphs(1).Range.Start, _

curDoc.Paragraphs(3).Range.End) rng.Copy()

'sel = curDoc.Range(curDoc.Paragraphs(1).Range, _

' curDoc.Paragraphs(3).Range.End)

'sel.Copy()

WordApp.Selection.GoTo(What:=Word.WdGoToItem.wdGoToBookmark, _

Name:="\EndOfDoc")

WordApp.Selection.Paste()

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(rng)


End Sub

This method stores the first 3 paragraphs in a Range object, copies them, moves to the end of the

document, and pastes the paragraphs. I’ve included commented code that shows how you could perform

the copy using a Selection object.

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We have now delved into the waters of Word document content manipulation. We’ll continue looking at

scenarios in future articles!

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23 Comments

Ron

November 15, 2013 at 9:55 am

Good as far as i t goes, but I create:

word_doc.sections(1).headers.text = “dog”

then

word_doc.sections(2).headers.text = “cat”

all headers in the document are “cat”

Cannot figure out why

Dmitry Kostochko (Add‐in Express Team)

November 15, 2013 at 12:30 pm

Hello Ron,

According to MSDN, the HeadersFooters collection does not have the Text property:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en‐us/library/office/ff197925.aspx

So, I cannot figure out how your code works.

Shai

December 6, 2013 at 8:47 am

Thanks for the post and really been helpful. I wonder how can I delete a page from a word doc. for example I want

to delete page #3 from a 5 page document. I am populating data on a word template. Every page has a picture and

some statements and putting data from different database tables. But in case there is no data in a particular page

because the underlying database table has no record of it, want to delete that page. I know which page to delete

but do not know how to delete. Please help.

Ty Anderson

December 6, 2013 at 5:30 pm

Hello Shai!

You want to use the Range object.

First navigate to the page you want to delete using the GoTo command.

Then set a Range to reference the entire page.

Last, delete it by calling Range.Delete.

Here is some code that can get you started.

With WordApp.ActiveDocument

Set Rng = .GoTo(What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=iPage)

Set Rng = Rng.GoTo(What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:=”\page”)

Rng.Delete

End With

You can check if the page is blank by checking the range’s Word count.

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If Rng.Words.Count = 0 then Rng.Delete

Good luck.

Ty

Dustin C.


Quick question: I consistently have reports that are actually aggregates of individual reports. This is outside of my

control (right now), but I would l ike to break them up into their individual documents through some of the methods

you listed above. One nice part is that the individual reports consistently have “END OF REPORT” near the end of

the document (two l ines above the end of the page, to be specific). My thought was to try to key off of that phrase,

somehow drop the cursor down, and split the documents off that way. As I am somewhat of a novice to these

objects, I was wondering if you could maybe shed some light?

Thanks,

Dustin

Andrei Smolin (Add‐in Express Team)


Hello Dustin,

The best way is to record a VBA macro while performing the actions in the Word UI that you need your add‐in to

perform. Start with searching the “END OF REPORT” string, then select the report, cut it, create a new document,paste the contents, etc. The point is: the recorded macro shows the members of the Word object model involved in

the process. Then you’ll be able to convert the macro to the programming language that you use. While working on

this, you may find useful to look into the Reference and Concepts sections at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en‐

us/library/office/ee861527.aspx.

Ty Anderson


Hi Dustin,

I did a little bit of research and found this article:

How to programmatically save each page or section of a document as a separate file

I think the samples it provides will serve as a good start.

You have two options here

1 – Prepare the document by manually inserting sections after the END OF REPORT l ine.

2 – Use the Word object model to scan each page to locate END OF REPORT. When you find it, use the Selection

object to include all content above END OF REPORT, select it, and save it.

Good luck,

Ty

Victor

April 4, 2014 at 1:13 am

Hi Anderson,

Thank you for porting this ,i t’s really use‐full to me. And i have a problem to binding data using Xml Mapping

custom xml nodes .

I have template in that i added custom xml nodes, and i bind the data based on Xml nodes using vb.net . like below

For Each XMlnode As Word.ContentControl In wordDoc.ContentControls

If XMlnode.XMLMapping.CustomXMLNode.BaseName = “Desc” Then

OperList.Add(XMlnode.XMLMapping.CustomXMLNode.BaseName)

Next

wordDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.InsertRowsBelow()

when i try to insert new row in a table using above line command ,it is insert but xml‐nodes not carried to new row

…

How can i approach to print data in multiple row using xml nodes .

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please help me ..

Thank you .

Ty Anderson

April 8, 2014 at 12:12 am

Hi Victor,

Thanks for raising this question.

Please allow me a couple of days to respond.

Ty

Victor

April 10, 2014 at 12:43 am

Hi Anderson ,

Thank you for g iving response to my problem.

i will wait for your answer …

Thank you .

Ty Anderson

April 16, 2014 at 12:14 am

Victor,

What version of Word are you targeting?

Also, can you send your code and document to me to look at further?

What you are doing makes sense but I need more context.

Are you trying to create repeating content controls in a pre Word 2013 version of Word? See below:

Repeating section content controls represented in the object model

Kavitha

April 23, 2014 at 10:27 am

Hi Ty Anderson,

I am struct at repeating data in word 2013.

can you please find my word document at below link:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D935E20D58C2FDAF%21107

and XML file : https://onedrive.live.com/redir?

resid=D935E20D58C2FDAF!112&authkey=!ACL29rLRh6Yg0lA&ithint=file%2c.XML

In word document CARRIER INFORMATION section i have to loop the data. But first row only it is printing.in second

row i don’t have the xml nodes….so it i s not printing.

But i need to print all lines in CARRIER INFORMATION.

Let me know how can i print all lines.

Kavitha

April 24, 2014 at 2:25 am

Hi Ty Anderson,

Can i have samples of using Repeating section content controls in VB.Net.

i have find related code in VBA

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/contentcontrol_enhancements_word_2013.html

I have one more doubt. I have word document template with office 2013.I f i g ive this to customer who is using

office 2010. how then cam manage custom xml nodes.

Ty Anderson

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April 29, 2014 at 8:46 am

Hi Kavitha

Thank you for the sample code. I will take a look.

Ty

Ty Anderson

May 7, 2014 at 6:30 am

Hi Kavitha,

I reviewed your document and I think you need to look at how you setup the repeating content controls in the

document. I don’t see a repeating section content control in the Bill of Lading document.

Please review these articles:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/pro‐tip‐nest‐content‐controls‐using‐word‐2013s‐new‐repeating‐section‐

content‐control/# .

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en‐us/library/office/jj889465(v=office.15).aspx

For a code sample, this might help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en‐US/4e9fd33f‐b13a‐4a7d‐90b9‐48a96a33a71e/how‐can‐i‐loop‐the‐

repeating‐section‐content‐controls‐using‐vbnet?forum=worddev

Ty

Charles Hurst

June 4, 2014 at 2:21 am

Hi Ty,

Thanks for the post it was an insightful read on my current project.

I’m having one issue where by my code is currently stripping out any Header content and replacing with whatever

the user selects from my Pop up.

Is there anyway to insert text in to Word Header with a merge (preferably on top) without deleting all current

content?

Thanks in advance,

Charles

Dmitry Kostochko (Add‐in Express Team)

June 5, 2014 at 5:55 am

Hi Charles,

Yes, it is possible. Please have a look at the following MSDN article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en‐us/library/ms178795.aspx

It demonstrates how to get a Range object of the main Header. Using the Range object you will be able to get and

set its Text.

Ajith. S


Hi Anderson

Your article on ‘Working with Word document content objects’ is very informative.

My concern is programmatically using Inter.Word library how can i enable a search.

The search results should be displayed in the navigation pane, showing all the details of the matches found.

Kindly help.

Thanks in advance

Ty Anderson


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Unfortunately, Word does not provide an API object for the Navigation pane.

It is possible however to build your own pane that mimics the search behavior you want to automate.

You can execute searches using the Find object:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en‐us/library/office/ff839118(v=office.15).aspx

Ty

Vijay Nanda

February 14, 2015 at 3:31 pm

Hi Anderson,

I want to write a small programme using VB 6.0 and MS Word 2007 wherein I want to create a document (My

Report.doc) which can be edited, reformatted, displayed and printed. The full details are as under:

There are 12 conditions. if condition No. 1 is met some pre‐bookmarked portion from the already existed MS Word

File (C:\My File.doc) is to be copied, a New Word Document is opened with the name “My Report.doc” and the

copied portion is pasted on it.

For example,

If K = 1 Then (read pre bookmarked portion from the World File (C:\My File.doc) Open a New Word Document and

copy paste the selected portion in this New Word Document (My Report.doc).

Elseif K = 2

Then (read selected portion from the World File (C:\My File.doc) Open a New Word Document and copy paste the

selected portion in this New Word Document (My Report.doc).

……and so on till K = 12 is tested. (Only one option will be true hence only one MS Word File (My Report.doc) will be

Opened.

Similarly L, M, N, O, P, Q, R,S & T are to be tested (12 Times each) and the entire information is to be deposited in

one single MS Word File (My Report.doc).

Note :

(Text in the C:\My File is simple text divided into paragraphs. There are no Tables/Fields etc.)

I shall be grateful, if you could help me in making this programme using VB 6.0 and MS Word 2007 for my personal

use.

With Kind Regards

Vijay Nanda

Ty Anderson

February 18, 2015 at 10:23 pm

Hello Vijay,

I can’t help you write the app with VB6 but I can point you to some useful links:

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/WorkWithBookmarks.htm

http://www.vbexplorer.com/VBExplorer/office_vb.asp

Is VB6 a strict requirement? If so, why?

Ty

Ravikumar

May 10, 2015 at 11:49 am

Hi,

how to get the total count of characters from beginning of the document to the current cursor position. i want to

get total characters from starting to cursor edit point, not the total characters in the document.

Please help

Thanks.

Ty Anderson

May 12, 2015 at 12:59 pm

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Hi Ravikumar,

To count the characters is simple. You only need to check this:

Dim currentPosition As Long

currentPosition = Selection.Range.Start

The Selection.Range.Start is the position of the cursor.

The integer value that .Start returns, is the number of characters that precedes it within the document.

I hope this helps.

Ty

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