Content Formatting

Essential DocIO offers extensive support for creating word documents with various formats and styles.

Essential DocIO has support for formatting paragraphs in a document. Using this appearance and relative positioning with respect to adjacent paragraphs can be modified.

A Complete range of formatting and font options are available for the document text in Essential DocIO. These options include setting of font name, font size, font color and font style.

Sample Code-Text Formatting

Different Text Formats-Illustrated

Custom Styles can be defined and applied on different texts in the Word document.

Bulleted and numbered list support is available in Essential DocIO. These can be used to create ordered and unordered hierarchical lists in a Word document. Different styling options are also available for such lists.

Sample Code-Bulleted and Numbered Lists

Bulleted and Numbered Lists-Illustrated

Essential DocIO provides support for including a Table Of Contents (TOC) in a document. This feature comes with customization options such as the ability to display Page Numbers and Hyperlinks in the TOC. The usage of default or custom Heading styles to indicate content headings and specifying the number of Outline levels is supported on Essential DocIO. It also supports the ability to use TableEntryFields to create TOC.

Essential DocIO has support for inserting both Scalar and Vector images into a document in almost all formats. Bitmap, GIF, PNG and TIFF are some of the supported common image types.

Essential DocIO provides support for applying backgrounds and watermarks to any Word document. You can paint the background with a solid color, gradient shade, texture or an image.

Watermark is a feature in MS Word that enables you to insert a washed-out image or text behind the document content. Thus watermarks allows us to stamp a document. You can apply a picture or text watermark using Essential DocIO.

Essential DocIO supports the creation of documents with multiple column layouts. While using columns, often the last column text gets rendered with a width that is inconsistent with previous columns. Inserting a continuous column break will balance the column lengths, providing a professional and finished look to the document. These column breaks can be inserted using Essential DocIO.

Sample Code-Insert Column Break

Column Breaks-Illustrated

Page break refers to the end of a page of text. Essential DocIO offers support for including 'hard' or 'forced' page breaks in the Word Document.

Word documents can be divided into sections and formatted individually using Essential DocIO.

Headers and Footers including text, images, page numbers and date can be created for Word documents using Essential DocIO. The header and footer are displayed at the top and bottom of each page.

Page Numbers of formats such as Arabic, RomanUpper, RomanLower and so on can be inserted using Essential DocIO. Restarting page numbers from any section and changing the start-with number for page number of each section is also supported.

The below screenshot shows word document with page number format RomanUpper and start page number as 4.

Essential DocIO provides support for including Footnotes and Endnotes in a document. A Footnote is a note of text placed at the bottom of a page. It is normally flagged by a superscript number followed by the text being referenced.

An Endnote is a note or reference listed at the end of a text or a major text section. Endnotes differ from footnotes in that they are collected and listed together at the end of a chapter.

Word Documents containing text in various languages can be generated using Essential DocIO.

Essential DocIO supports the insertion of unicode characters in a document which enables the use of the document in multiple platforms and languages.