Word Interop And C#, How to merge 2 or more documents?

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Hello Guys,

I have the following problem.

I have two documents

doc 1:

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header
-----------------------
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
-----------------------
Footer
-----------------------

Doc2
-----------------------
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
-----------------------

What I need is:
-----------------------
header
-----------------------
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
-----------------------
Footer
-----------------------
page break
-----------------------
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
Content Content Content
-----------------------

I have all the code to return to me either _documents or the actual saved files.

All I need is some code to merge them to give me the desired effect.

If you have a c# code snippet or some links I would truly appreciate it.

Posted 21-Nov-11 1:19am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Nov-11 13:47pm

Why this is a problem? Any particular difficulty?
--SA

Member 8334897 22-Nov-11 0:49am

Hey,

Ye, ive been trying all sorts of code. Every time when I do get them to merge I have several problems like formatting problems, the one problem I had with formatting was that when I merged the documents, the header/footer repeats onto the second document.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

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Solution 4

Something along the lines of:

C#

pageSetup.HeaderDistance = 20;

  builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HeaderFirst);

  builder.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Center;

This may not be perfect. Adjust as needed.

--Vlad781

Posted 2-Apr-12 23:05pm

vlad781

Solution 3

Hi,

you can accomplish this task easily with this C# / VB.NET Word library that doesn't use C# Word Interop.

Here is a sample C# code:

C#

// Use the component in free mode.
ComponentInfo.SetLicense("FREE-LIMITED-KEY");

// Create document instance that will contain all concatenated input documents.
var finalDocument = new DocumentModel();

// For each input document.
foreach (string filePath in filePaths)
{
	// Load an input document.
	var document = DocumentModel.Load(filePath, LoadOptions.DocxDefault);

	// Import and add every input document section to the final document.
	foreach (var section in document.Sections)
		finalDocument.Sections.Add(finalDocument.Import(section, true));
}

// Save final document to a file.
finalDocument.Save("FinalDocument.docx", SaveOptions.DocxDefault);

Posted 20-Feb-12 23:37pm

Robert Hutch

Solution 1

Check these nice posts

How To: Merge Multiple Microsoft Word Documents in C#[^]
C# Tutorial - Combine Multiple Word Documents into One Word Document [^]

Posted 27-Nov-11 5:06am

thatraja

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RaviRanjanKr 27-Nov-11 14:50pm

My 5+

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**Manoj K Bhoir** · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-27T05:49:00

Solution 2

Try this :

How to Split and Merge Two Files

Posted 27-Nov-11 5:49am

Manoj K Bhoir

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RaviRanjanKr 27-Nov-11 14:50pm

My 5+