I am trying to add these three types of content into a word doc. This is how I am trying to do it now. However, each item replaces the last one. Adding images always adds to the beginning of the page. I have a loop that calls a function to create the headers and tables, and then adds images after. I think the problem is ranges. I use a starting range of object start = 0;
How can I get these to add one at a time to to a new line in the document?
foreach (var category in observedColumns)
{
CreateHeadersAndTables();
createPictures();
}
Adding Headers:
object start = 0;
Word.Range rng = doc.Range(ref start , Missing.Value);
Word.Paragraph heading;
heading = doc.Content.Paragraphs.Add(Missing.Value);
heading.Range.Text = category;
heading.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
Adding Tables:
Word.Table table;
table = doc.Content.Tables.Add(rng, 1, 5);
Adding Pictures:
doc.Application.Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture(@path);
A simple approach will be using paragraphs to handle the Range
objects and simply insert a new paragraph one by one.
Looking at the API documentation reveals that Paragraphs
implements an Add
method which:
Returns a Paragraph object that represents a new, blank paragraph added to a document. (...) If Range isn't specified, the new paragraph is added after the selection or range or at the end of the document.
In that way, it gets straight forward to append new content to the document.
For completeness I have included a sample that shows how a solution might work. The sample loops through a for
loop, and for each iteration it inserts:
The sample has is implemented as a C# console application using:
... that is, the MS Word Interop API that ships with MS Office 2013.
using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Application = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application;
namespace StackOverflowWordInterop
{
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
// Open word and a docx file
var wordApplication = new Application() { Visible = true };
var document = wordApplication.Documents.Open(@"C:\Users\myUserName\Documents\document.docx", Visible: true);
// "10" is chosen by random - select a value that fits your purpose
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
// Insert text
var pText = document.Paragraphs.Add();
pText.Format.SpaceAfter = 10f;
pText.Range.Text = String.Format("This is line #{0}", i);
pText.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
// Insert table
var pTable = document.Paragraphs.Add();
pTable.Format.SpaceAfter = 10f;
var table = document.Tables.Add(pTable.Range, 2, 3, WdDefaultTableBehavior.wdWord9TableBehavior);
for (var r = 1; r <= table.Rows.Count; r++)
for (var c = 1; c <= table.Columns.Count; c++)
table.Cell(r, c).Range.Text = String.Format("This is cell {0} in table #{1}", String.Format("({0},{1})", r,c) , i);
// Insert picture
var pPicture = document.Paragraphs.Add();
pPicture.Format.SpaceAfter = 10f;
document.InlineShapes.AddPicture(Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments), "img_1.png"), Range: pPicture.Range);
}
// Some console ascii-UI
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to save document and close word..");
Console.ReadLine();
// Save settings
document.Save();
// Close word
wordApplication.Quit();
}
}
}