Get The text of Words from a word document

Get The text of Words from a word document

• Carl Peto

  Thank you for replying, but I have no idea how regular expressions could help me loop through each word in the Word document, and compre it to words (a list of words, in a collection) and if the word is a match, hightlight the word, I am a guru at C# (self proclaimed) but I am a newbie to office, any code examples or link to what I want is what I need, your answer was like the mechanic telling me all you need to do is put in a new carbireartor (like I could do that to save my life).

  Thanks,

  Corby Nichols

  Houston, Texas

  
  

• techlist

  Corby C# wrote:

  Thank you for replying, but I have no idea how regular expressions could help me loop through each word in the Word document, and compre it to words (a list of words, in a collection) and if the word is a match, hightlight the word, I am a guru at C# (self proclaimed) but I am a newbie to office, any code examples or link to what I want is what I need, your answer was like the mechanic telling me all you need to do is put in a new carbireartor (like I could do that to save my life).   Thanks, Corby Nichols Houston, Texas

  Ok here's the vb.net code. C# should be just a few semi-colons:

  Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
  Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word

  Public Class Form1
  Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

  Private Sub btnFind_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnFind.Click

  Dim strFileName As String = "C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\Resume-AdamTurner.doc"
  Dim word As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application
  Dim myapp As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document
  Dim mycounter As Integer = 1

  myapp = word.Documents.Open(strFileName)
  word.Visible = True

  With word.Selection.Find

     .ClearFormatting()
     .Text = "test"
     .Execute()

     Do Until .Found = False

        .Execute()
        mycounter = mycounter + 1

     Loop

  End With

  MessageBox.Show("Found " & mycounter & " matches")

  End Sub
  End Class

  
  
  

• Ozberg

  Thank you again for replying, that was code this time, so we are making great progress.

  Only problem is although I have 5 years Visual Basic experince (version 3- 6) I became a C# guy Jan./2001.

  And office automation is the first place I have ever liked the features of VB.Net better then C#, any

  idea what a C# equilevant of that looks like.

  I can play around, but I do I get to the selection object, is the Word.Document.Selection

  Thanks,

  Corby Nichols

  Houston, Texas

  
  
  

• Mbowles

  Why not using the Words object with Regex. This would make your search quite easy.

  ApplicationClass wordApp = new ApplicationClass();

  object file = @"H:\Werk\DiamondDocs\DiamondDocs\bin\Debug\Archive\2007\B\Belastingdienst.doc";

  object oFalse = false;

  object nullobj = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

  Range range = null;

  Document doc = wordApp.Documents.Open(ref file, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

  ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

  ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

  object startIndex = 0;

  object eindIndex = (object)doc.Characters.Count;

  range = doc.Range(ref startIndex, ref eindIndex);

  string tekst = range.Text;

  string zoek = "aanslag";

  foreach (Range r in doc.Words)

  {

  Regex reg = new Regex(zoek);

  Match m = reg.Match(r.Text);

  if(m.Success){

  r.HighlightColorIndex = WdColorIndex.wdBlue;

  r.Select();

  }

  }

  foreach (Document d in wordApp.Documents)

  {

  d.Close(ref oFalse, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

  }

  wordApp.Quit(ref oFalse, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

  wordApp = null;

  doc = null;

  
  

• Jim Karr

  You are looking for "regular expressions"

  Adamus

  
  
  

• hrubesh

  I found what I needed, I had actually red the article, just wasnt able to get Word up at the time.

  http://www.builderau.com.au/program/dotnet/soa/Easily_utilise_Microsoft_Word_functionality_in_your_NET_application/0,339028399,339198903,00.htm

  Word.Range range = null;

  object startPosition = 0;

  object endPosition = (object) wordDoc.Characters.Count;

  range = wordDoc.Range(ref startPosition, ref endPosition);

  string text = range.Text;

  string wordSearch = "SQL Server";

  // Select All Instances of of the word

  int startIndex = text.IndexOf(wordSearch) + 1;

  int endIndex = startIndex + wordSearch.Length;

  // convert startPosition & endPosition from

  // startIndex & endIndex

  startPosition = (object) startIndex;

  endPosition = (object) endIndex;

  range = wordDoc.Range(ref startPosition, ref endPosition);

  range.HighlightColorIndex = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdColorIndex.wdYellow;

  range.Select();

  In the first section, the string text is every word from the doc, what I have to do next, is put a do / while loop around that code to find all occurances of the word.

  I will post that when I finish it.

  Thanks for your help everyone, now I can get back to what I was working on before I started messing with Word, whatever that was.

  Thank you,

  Corby Nichols

  
  

• gkostel

  Corby C# wrote:

  Thank you for replying, but I have no idea how regular expressions could help me loop through each word in the Word document, and compre it to words (a list of words, in a collection) and if the word is a match, hightlight the word, I am a guru at C# (self proclaimed) but I am a newbie to office, any code examples or link to what I want is what I need, your answer was like the mechanic telling me all you need to do is put in a new carbireartor (like I could do that to save my life). Thanks, Corby Nichols Houston, Texas

  Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
  With Selection.Find
  .Text = "test" 'text to find
  .Replacement.Text = ""
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindContinue
  .Format = False
  .MatchCase = False
  .MatchWholeWord = False
  .MatchWildcards = False
  .MatchSoundsLike = False
  .MatchAllWordForms = False
  End With
  Selection.Find.Execute

  
  
  

• Alex Farber

  Also, if you want to find and highlight all find in the document just change the following line:

          .MatchAllWordForms = True

  Adamus

  
  
  

• ramesh_1031

  In all the examples of automating Word, the samples set Word.Visible = true. Why I'd rather not have Word popping up in the background while I process their document. But if I set Visible=false, I get an error trying to open the document.
  

• alex ivanov 3

  Also, a very simple way to have Office generate the code for you:

  1. Tools | Macro | Record New Macro
  2. Complete your task
  3. Stop the macro recorder
  4. Alt + F11
  5. Your code is now inside the module.

  This will work about 85% of the time and comes in very handy for VBA. Of course, in some cases, you'll have to modify or hard code your own solution.

  Adamus

  
  
  

• Rocinante8

  What is a culling applicaiton for resumes

  The calling application (is that what you meant) is a contact management program for a recruitting company,

  so yes, it manages resumes, contacts, experiences, companies, skills, and the like.

  Thank you,

  Corby Nichols

  
  

• GlenAtMotorola

  Corby111 wrote:

  Thank you again for replying, that was code this time, so we are making great progress. Only problem is although I have 5 years Visual Basic experince (version 3- 6) I became a C# guy Jan./2001. And office automation is the first place I have ever liked the features of VB.Net better then C#, any idea what a C# equilevant of that looks like. I can play around, but I do I get to the selection object, is the Word.Document.Selection Thanks, Corby Nichols Houston, Texas

  ThisDocument.Select

  Adamus

  
  
  

• Matt Lin

  Just out of curiousity, are you writing a culling application for resumes

  Adamus

  
  
  

• neo1000

  Corby111 wrote:

  And office automation is the first place I have ever liked the features of VB.Net better then C#, any idea what a C# equilevant of that looks like.

  I'm more of a vb.net/asp.net/sql server guy myself. I've never had much problem converting VBA to .net. Vb.net & C# share the same libraries, so you shouldn't have much of a problem converting it.

  Here's a good article on the C# interop for MS Word: http://www.builderau.com.au/program/dotnet/soa/Easily_utilise_Microsoft_Word_functionality_in_your_NET_application/0,339028399,339198903,00.htm

  Adamus

  
  
  
• Get The text of Words from a word document