retrieve cursor position in a docx file

J have a template docx file opened.
J want to add a text field where the cursor is positioned. Is it possible?
How can j solve using c#?

thanks in advance

scaglio

Hi scaglio

This code should do what you're wanting:

/// <summary>
/// Inserts the given <param name="text"/> at the cursor bookmark in the <param name="docName"/>
/// </summary>
/// <param name="docName">Name of the document.</param>
/// <param name="text">The text to insert into the document.</param>
public static void InsertTextBeforeCursorInWordprocessingDocument(string docName, string text)
{
    // Open the Wordprocessing document.
    using (WordprocessingDocument wordprocessingDocument = WordprocessingDocument.Open(docName, true))
    {

        BookmarkStart cursorBookmark = wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.Descendants<BookmarkStart>().Where(
            bookmarkStart => bookmarkStart.Name.HasValue && bookmarkStart.Name.Value.Equals("_GoBack")).SingleOrDefault();

        if (cursorBookmark != null)
        {
            Text docText = new Text(text);

            Run run = new Run(docText);

            cursorBookmark.Parent.InsertBefore(run, cursorBookmark);
        }

        // Save changes to the main document part.
        wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Save();
    }
}

Hope this helps :)

Thanks a lot Intergen, your code is very usefull.

J have one problem:
my docx is already opened in a word session, when I try to execute this code :"WordprocessingDocument.Open(docName, true)" I receive an error ('File already used by another process').
Do you know how to solve this problem?

thanks

scaglio

Hi scaglio

Yes, You simply need to make sure the document isn't opened by Office or another application (or possibly other code you have running) - ultimately you could restart your pc to ensure no application is using it and then try again (if still a problem check the file's properties do not have it set to read only or locked).