C# office 2010 automation - automation

Question

i'm trying to make a program that inserts data into specific places in existing word document and saves a copy of it.
and i have no clue how to do it , and i cant find any good resource on office 2010 automating.
can anyone point me in the right direction and/or give me some examples.
thanks in advance.
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Answer 1

Here is how i did it , it may not be the best way , but its working !
add references to the office interop
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
//defines new excel and workd apps
var ap = new Word.Application();
var excelApp = new Excel.Application();
// defines new excel worksheet & workbooks
Excel.Workbook exBook;
Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;
// should the excell/word apps be visible ?
excelApp.Visible = false;
ap.Visible = false;
//defining the index numbers of our content controls that are in the word template
// index numbers start from 1 and are numbered by order of creation
object Price, Name, address;
Price = 1;
Name = 2;
address = 3;
// here we open the excell file
exBook = excelApp.Workbooks.Open(#"C:\test.xls");
// and we open the first worksheet
xlWorkSheet = exBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1);
Excel.Range range ;
//here we select the first worksheet and make it active
Excel._Worksheet workSheet = (Excel.Worksheet) excelApp.ActiveSheet;
//we open the word document
var doc = ap.Documents.Open(#"C:\test.dotx", ReadOnly: false, Visible: false);
// and we assign the content controls
var dPrice = doc.ContentControls.get_Item(ref Price);
var dName = doc.ContentControls.get_Item(ref Name);
var dAddress = doc.ContentControls.get_Item(ref address);
doc.Activate();
range = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
// here we define the columns that we are going to select
object t, P , E , K, N,M,J;
P = "P";
E = "E";
K = "K";
J = "J";
N = "N";
M = "M";
// and here we loop trought the rows of the excell worksheet
// IMPORTANT! excell rows count starts from 1 and not from 0 !
for (int i =1; i< Convert.ToInt16(Settings1.Default.copies) ;i++)
{
t = i;
// here we get the value if cell t(1..2..3..etc), P
var dummy = (range.Cells[t, P] as Excel.Range).Value2;
// here we insert the content of the cell to the content control
dPrice.Range.Text = ": " + Convert.ToString(dummy) + " лв";
dName.Range.Text = ": " + (string)(range.Cells[t, E] as Excel.Range).Value2;
// same thing here
var city = (string) (range.Cells[t, J] as Excel.Range).Value2;
var address1 = (string) (range.Cells[t, K] as Excel.Range).Value2;
var city2 = (string) (range.Cells[t, M] as Excel.Range).Value2;
var address2 = (string) (range.Cells[t,N] as Excel.Range).Value2;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(city2) && city2 != " " && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(address2) && address2 != " ")
{
dAddress.Range.Text = ": " +city.Normalize() + " " + address1.Normalize() + " , " + city2.Normalize() + " " + address2.Normalize() ;
}
else
{
dAddress.Range.Text = ": " + city.Normalize() + " " + address1.Normalize();
}
try
{
//here we try to save the word document as a pdf file
object name = #"C:\t\test"+i+".pdf";
object FileFormat = WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF;
doc.SaveAs(ref name, ref FileFormat);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Exception Caught: " + ex.Message +" source "+ ex.Source.ToString());
}
}
// here quit word without saving the changes to the template
ap.Quit(SaveChanges: false, OriginalFormat: false, RouteDocument: false);
excelApp.Quit();
// and we release the objects
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(ap);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(excelApp);
i hope this was helpful to someone :)