Using C# with MS Word - Any help?

dulpit

Hey, using C# (Express Edition of it) and one part of what i'm coding requires me to create a word document, i can go about this 2 ways.

1. Create the entire document via C#
2. Create a template. Add just what's different into various bookmarks.

I've decided that option 2 is the quicker, i have an awful lot of text in the document that will be the same, regardless of what inputs are used my user.

I googled a bit and found this site, it's a microsoft support site. I followed the instructions on how to create a sample word document, it worked grand. Then i went onto the section on bookmarks. I created a quick template with 1 bookmark. I followed the sample code from the page but i keep on getting an error. I've tried googling this but to no avail...

Can anyone help me please?

My code:

object oTemplate = "g:\\sampleTemplate.dot";
oDoc1 = oWord.Documents.Add(ref oTemplate, ref oMissing,
     ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
object oBookMark = "MyBookmark";
oDoc.Bookmarks.Item(ref oBookMark).Range.Text = "Some Text Here";

The code will compile and run (and create the document based on the template) if i leave out the last line.

The error i get is:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Bookmarks' does not contain a definition for 'Item'

I presume this means I am missing some reference or something, but I haven't a clue as to what it may be...

dulpit

Doesn't matter, figured it out...

Stoopid really, the code given on the site had

oDoc.Bookmarks.Item(ref oBookMark).Range.Text = "Some Text Here";

whereas it should be

oDoc.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref oBookMark).Range.Text = "Some Text Here";

Note the .get_Item() as opposed to .Item()

samelterrance

Hi,

Have a look at this site, apparantely get_item works.
http://www.ureader.com/message/685423.aspx

Try get_Item. I think that's fairly standard when automating Office apps
from C#:

wd.Range rng = wdDoc.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref objBkmName).Range;

samelterrance

dulpit wrote:

Doesn't matter, figured it out...

Stoopid really, the code given on the site had

oDoc.Bookmarks.Item(ref oBookMark).Range.Text = "Some Text Here";

whereas it should be

oDoc.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref oBookMark).Range.Text = "Some Text Here";

Note the .get_Item() as opposed to .Item()

cool, we must have found the same site :-)

dulpit

Cheers, beat you to it

But cheers none the less...


Kinda odd how a microsoft site would have code that doesn't actually work...

samelterrance

dulpit wrote:

Kinda odd how a microsoft site would have code that doesn't actually work...

:eek: :eek: :eek:
I have found that problem alot unfortunately!

dulpit

samelterrance wrote:

:eek: :eek: :eek:
I have found that problem alot unfortunately!

Really? :rolleyes: Bravo microsoft...