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This is the third in a series of screen-casts on getting started with Open XML development. In this screen-cast, I discuss the three most common scenarios around OpenXML WordprocessingML. Return to the Table of Contents of this screen-cast series.

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...

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...

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...

The default approach to working with DocumentBuilder 2.0 enables you to take bits and pieces of multiple documents and assemble them together into a new document. However, there is an interesting scenario that this approach does not handle. You may want to import a document into a cell in a table, into...

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...

I had thought that there were only going to be four screen-casts in this series on adding / updating tables-of-contents in OpenXML WordprocessingML documents. However, I can see that there are now going to be at least six. In the screen-cast that I present in this post, I show how you can add a TOC using...

I recently received a question about the use of the glossary document. In a nutshell, in DOCX, it is used for the placeholder text for content controls. In DOTX, it is used for the content for quick parts. The following 3 minute video demonstrates these two uses. It also shows a little trick you can...

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-contents for the document. TOC's in Open XML are not hard, but they require a bit of explanation. This post introduces the second in a series of screen-casts around Open XML WordprocessingML TOCs...