Create standards compliant Word (Legacy and Office 2007) reports from any .NET platform

Essential DocIO is a .NET library that can read and write Microsoft Word files. It features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office automation libraries. Essential DocIO makes it easy to create rich Word documents from your applications.

Essential DocIO

Essential DocIO is a full-fledged .NET library which allows easy creation and manipulation of Word documents. It consists of a single .NET assembly which is compatible with both 32 and 64-bit machines, and has no external dependencies.

• Simple Word Document

Document Formatting

Essential DocIO exposes powerful set of APIs to support wide range of formatting which includes, (Character formatting, Paragraph formatting, Table formatting, Bullets and List formatting, etc) and built-in styles.

• Paragraph Formatting
• Text Formatting
• Page Number Format
• Bullets and Numbered Lists
• Background and Watermark
• Built-in Styles
• Custom Styles

Document Settings

Essential DocIO provides support for creation and manipulation or various document setting both from new and existing documents.

• Document Properties
• Document Variables
• Track Changes
• Page Setup

Tables

Essential DocIO lets you insert tables with numerous formatting options within your documents.

• Table Formatting
• Table with Images

Find and Replace

Essential DocIO provides convenient APIs to search and replace specific document contents.

• Copying Text with Format
• Find and Replace with Template
• Replace with Document Elements

Bookmarks

Using Essential DocIO, users can create, traverse, modify, and replace bookmarks.

• Bookmark Navigation
• Inserting Bookmarks

Forms

While MS Word forms let you create templates with control placeholders to enter custom information, Essential DocIO lets you fill such forms programmatically with data retrieved from custom data sources.

• Form Filling

Document-level Operations

Multiple documents can be combined into a single document by utilizing the cloning and merging capabilities of Essential DocIO. This feature comes in very handy when dealing with content from several documents.

• Cloning and Merging

Mail Merge

Essential DocIO lets you perform mail-merge functionalities on template documents filled with placeholders, called mail-merge fields. It can open these templates in-memory and replace the fields with data from custom data sources.

• Envelopes
• Invoice
• Mailing Labels
• Mail-Merge Events
• Mail-Merge Images
• Mail-Merge with Letter Formats
• Nested Mail-Merge

Comments

Essential DocIO supports the inclusion of comments in documents where you can display custom-defined text or help data.

• Generate Comments

Symbols

Essential DocIO supports the insertion of symbols in the Word documents.

• Inserting Symbols

Document Protection

This section illustrates the various forms of document protection supported by Essential DocIO.

• Encryption-Decryption
• Restricting Operations

Import and Export

This section deals with the conversion of Word documents into various file formats.

• DOC to PDF
• DOC to HTML
• DOC to RTF
• DOC to Text
• HTML to Doc
• Streaming Support