Reading Specific Paragraph of a MS Word Document in C#

Reading paragraph MS Word Document, C#, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.

Here, I am going to share how we can read paragraphs from a Microsoft Word Documnet using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word DLL.

1. Add reference of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word DLL into your project
2. With the help of following class, we can read a specific paragraph of a MS Word Document.

class WordDocReader

{

    //To read paragraph contents of a Word document using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word DLL

    public string ReadFileContent(string path, int paraGraphNum)

    {

        int i = 0;

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass wordApp = new ApplicationClass();

        object file = path;

        object nullobj = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc = wordApp.Documents.Open

                                                (ref file, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

                                                ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

                                                ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

                                                ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

 

        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Paragraphs DocPar = doc.Paragraphs;

        // Count number of paragraphs in the file

        long parCount = DocPar.Count;

        // Step through the paragraphs

        while (i < parCount)

        {

            i++;

            if (i == paraGraphNum)

            {

                sb.Append(DocPar[i].Range.Text);

                break;

            }

        }

        doc.Close(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

        wordApp.Quit(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

        return (sb.ToString());

    }

}