Getting Started

Essential DocIO is a .Net library used for creating Word Documents independent of MS Office.

Simple WordDocument

Document Formatting

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

Paragraph Formatting	Text Formatting
Built In Styles	Custom Styles
Bullets and Numbered Lists	Table Of Contents
Documents with Images	Background and Watermark
Column Break	Page Break
Section Break	Header and Footer
Page Number Format	Footnotes and Endnotes
Unicode Support

Document Settings

Essential DocIO exposes several APIs to let you set the Document properties for the newly created documents or read the document properties of existing documents.

Document Properties	Page Setup
Document Variables

Tables

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

Formatted Tables

Table with Images

Find and Replace

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

Find and Replace with Template	Copying text with formats
Replace with Document Elements

Bookmarks

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

Inserting Bookmarks

Bookmark Navigation

Forms

MS Word Forms let you create templates with control place holders to let users enter custom information to fill a form. Essential DocIO lets you fill such forms programatically with data retrieved from your custom datasources.

FormFilling

Cloning and Merging

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 contents from several documents.

Clone and Merge

Mail Merge

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

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

Comments

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

Generate Comments

Symbol

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

Inserting Symbols

Document Protection

This section illustrates the various forms of protecting the documents.

Restricting Operations

Import and Export

This section deals with the conversion of the word documents into various forms.

Streaming Support	Doc to Text
HTML to Doc