How to create Word document in Windows Forms?

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Syncfusion Essential DocIO is a .NET Word library used to create, read, and edit Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can create a Word document in Windows Forms.

Steps to create Word document programmatically:

Create a new Windows Forms application project.

Create Windows Forms application in Visual Studio

Install Syncfusion.DocIO.WinForms NuGet package as a reference to your Windows Forms application from the NuGet.org.

Add DocIO NuGet package reference to the project in WinForms

Include the following namespaces in the Form1.Designer.cs file.

using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;

Imports Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Windows.Forms

Add a new button in Form1.Designer.cs to create Word file as follows.

private Button btnCreate;
private Label label;
 
private void InitializeComponent()
{
    label = new Label();
    btnCreate = new Button();
 
    //Label
    label.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 40);
    label.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(426, 35);
    label.Text = "Click the button to view a Word document generated by Essential DocIO. Please note that Microsoft Word Viewer or Microsoft Word is required to view the resultant Word document";
    label.TextAlign = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
 
    //Button
    btnCreate.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(180, 110);
    btnCreate.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(85, 36);
    btnCreate.Text = "Create Document";
    btnCreate.Click += new EventHandler(btnCreate_Click);
 
    //Create Word
    ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(450, 150);
    Controls.Add(label);
    Controls.Add(btnCreate);
    Text = "Create Word";
}

Private label As Label
Private WithEvents btnCreate As Button
 
Private Sub InitializeComponent()
   label = New Label
   btnCreate = New Button
 
   'Label
   label.Location = New Drawing.Point(0, 40)
   label.Size = New Drawing.Size(426, 35)
   label.Text = ("Click the button to view a Word document generated by Essential DocIO. Please note that Microsoft Word Viewer or Microsoft Word is required to view the resultant Word document")
   label.TextAlign = Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter
 
   'Button
   btnCreate.Location = New Drawing.Point(180, 110)
   btnCreate.Size = New Drawing.Size(85, 36)
   btnCreate.Text = "Create Document"
   AddHandler btnCreate.Click, AddressOf Me.btnCreate_Click
 
   'Create Spreadsheet
   ClientSize = New Drawing.Size(450, 150)
   Controls.Add(label)
   Controls.Add(btnCreate)
   Text = "Create Word"
End Sub

Add the following code in btnCreate_Click to create Word document with simple text.

//Creates a new instance of WordDocument (Empty Word Document)
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument())
{
    //Adds a section and a paragraph to the document
    document.EnsureMinimal();
    //Appends text to the last paragraph of the document
    document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Hello World");
    //Saves the Word document
    document.Save("Result.docx");
}

' Creates a new instance of WordDocument (Empty Word Document)
Using document As WordDocument = New WordDocument
    ' Adds a section and a paragraph to the document
    document.EnsureMinimal()
    ' Appends text to the last paragraph of the document
    document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Hello World")
    ' Saves the Word document
    document.Save("Result.docx")
End Using

A complete working example of how to create Word document in Windows Forms can be downloaded from Create-Word-file.zip

By executing the program, you will get the Word document as follows.

Generated or created Word document

Take a moment to peruse the documentation, where you can find basic Word document processing options along with features like mail merge, merge and split documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

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