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This is a fun little project that I needed to do to help out a customer. The customer needed to select a specific subset of paragraphs in a WordprocessingML document based on certain search criteria, and then display the subset in a form (in a Windows Forms application). As it turns out, it was pretty...

In document processing parlance, shredding a document is the process of dividing a source document according to certain rules, and creating a number of documents from the source document. This is useful, for instance, when you have a huge document, and you want to divide it into multiple documents to...

Several years ago, I was at a Microsoft conference, and was asked by a couple of attendees how to merge comments from multiple Open XML WordprocessingML documents into a single document. Those developers had attempted to write code to do this, and were not successful. I took this as a challenge, and...

This post introduces the second screen-cast in this series on getting started with Open XML development. In this screen-cast, I introduce the three most important tools that you will want to be familiar with: Return to the Table of Contents of this screen-cast series. Open XML Package Editor Power Tool...

We’re very happy to announce the release of PowerTools for Open XML version 2.2, now available for download at powertools.codeplex.com . There are a number of great features in this new release: Merge-OpenXmlDocument incorporates DocumentBuilder 2.0, which is a much more robust implementation of...

In a previous screen-cast , I showed how to retrieve the text of an OpenXML WordprocessingML document. In this post and screen-cast, I introduce some code that enables you to replace the text of a bookmark. This blog post and screen-cast build on the previous screen-cast. In that screen-cast, I used...

Sometimes developers use bookmarks to delineate text in an OpenXML WordprocessingML document. Then, as part of a larger system, they want to retrieve the text of that bookmark to process in some fashion. Retrieving the text of bookmarks is made somewhat more complicated because the w:bookmarkStart and...

Here is the last of four screen-casts on tables-of-contents in OpenXML WordprocessingML documents. In this screen-cast, I show how to use Word Automation Services to repaginate a document and update the TOC. Here is the complete list of screen-casts in this series. Link Summary Screen-cast #1 Explains...

Here is a short screen-cast that explains what DocumentBuilder 2.0 is all about, in less than seven minutes.

Many Open XML developers need to generate documents, and then generate and insert an updated table-of-content for the document. TOC's in Open XML are not hard, but they require a bit of explanation. This blog post introduces the first of several screen-casts around Open XML WordprocessingML TOCs...

Recently I wrote some code that implemented search-and-replace for Open XML WordprocessingML documents . I wrote that code for an Open XML developer who needed to implement that functionality using XML DOM, although with a different language than C#. Because XML DOM is standardized, translating the code...

This post is the third in a series of three screen-casts that introduce DocumentBuilder 2.0. This screen-cast builds on the previous two screen-casts where I walk through the process of transferring comments from multiple source documents into a destination document. In this final screen-cast in the...

This post is the second in a series of three screen-casts that introduce DocumentBuilder 2.0. This screen-cast builds on the previous screen-cast where I walk through the process of transferring comments from multiple source documents into a destination document. In this screen-cast, I insert images...

At long last, I have completed and posted a much requested and sorely needed update to DocumentBuilder . DocumentBuilder is code that is part of the PowerTools for Open XML project that handles issues of interrelated markup, enabling you to generate new documents from existing documents in a variety...