Possible to replace text by mergefield including initial text formatting?

[Ootam Seewoogoolam]

I have been trying to replace custom text on word document and replacing with mergefield but i can't seem to figure out how copy across the initial text formatting to the mergefield.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Ootam Seewoogoolam]

I found a solution. but if anyone has a better way to do this, please post in this thread. Thanks

[Mohanaselvam Jothi]

Hi Ootam,

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support.

To achieve your requirement, we suggest you to use Replace API of DocIO. It replaces the given text with TextBodyPart and preserves the formatting from custom text.

Please refer the below code example to replace custom text with mail merge field with its formatting using DocIO: 

//Loads a template document 

WordDocument document = new WordDocument("Template.docx", FormatType.Docx);           

//Creates new paragraph. 

WParagraph paragraph = new WParagraph(document); 

//Appends mail merge field to the paragraph. 

paragraph.AppendField("SimpleField", FieldType.FieldMergeField); 

//Initializes text body part 

TextBodyPart bodyPart = new TextBodyPart(document); 

bodyPart.BodyItems.Add(paragraph); 

 

//Replaces a particular text with the text body part, 

//taking into consideration case sensitive, whole word, and formatting options. 

document.Replace("text", bodyPart, true, true, true); 

 

//Saves and closes the document
document.Save("Sample.docx"); 

document.Close(); 

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Regards,
Mohanaselvam J