Reading Specific Paragraph of a MS Word Document in C#

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());

}

}