Unable to open doc file after editing in C#

Ameya Joshi

I have written following Code to edit bookmarks of Word document., as document is generated doc is visible but if i close the same and tried to open the same doc again the word doc gives error as :

1.Check file permissions for file/ drive.

2.make sure there is sufficient memory and disk space.

private void GenerateApplication()

{

object readOnly = true;

object repair = false;

object bookMarkName = "applicantName";

object bookMarkCompany = "firmName";

object bookMarkPost = "postName";

fielName = @"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\OperateWordFromC#.dotx";

objDoc = wordApp.Documents.Open(ref fielName, ref missingValuesValues, ref readOnly, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues,

ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues,

ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref repair, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues);

objDoc.Activate();

objDoc.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref bookMarkName).Range.Text = txtApplicantName.Text;

objDoc.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref bookMarkCompany).Range.Text = txtAppliedCompany.Text;

objDoc.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref bookMarkPost).Range.Text = txtAppliedPost.Text;

string outputFile = @"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\ApplicationOf-" + txtApplicantName.Text + ".docx";

bookMarkName = null;

bookMarkCompany = null;

bookMarkPost = null;

Object objSaveAsFile = outputFile;

Object objFileFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat.wdFormatDocument;

wordApp.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(ref objSaveAsFile, ref repair, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues,

ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues,

ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues);

wordApp.Visible = true;

}

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Glen Lewis12y ago
Hi,
You need to use Add instead of Open, try the following:

// Remove this ...
var objDoc = wordApp.Documents.Open(ref fielName, ref missingValuesValues, ref readOnly, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues,
ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues,
ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref repair, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues, ref missingValuesValues);

// Add this ...
var objDoc = wordApp.Documents.Add(Template: ref fielName);

With this you can just specify the output file name with ".docx" extension and it will work:

wordApp.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(FileName: ref objSaveAsFile);

Also if interested another way that you can try is with this C# component for word files processing, it has a nice API for processing DOCX files in C# apps, for example try the following:

private static void GenerateApplication()
{
object bookMarkName = "applicantName";
object bookMarkCompany = "firmName";
object bookMarkPost = "postName";

string fielName = @"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\OperateWordFromC#.dotx";
var doc = DocumentModel.Load(fielName);

doc.Bookmarks["applicantName"].GetContent(false).LoadText(txtApplicantName.Text);
doc.Bookmarks["firmName"].GetContent(false).LoadText(txtAppliedCompany.Text);
doc.Bookmarks["postName"].GetContent(false).LoadText(txtAppliedPost.Text);

string outputFile = @"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\ApplicationOf-" + txtApplicantName.Text + ".docx";
doc.Save(outputFile);

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(outputFile);
}
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Ameya Joshi13y ago
Please find attached zip containing "xxx.dotx" & output "xxx.docx" file
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13y ago
Is it possible for you to upload the OperateWordFromC#.dotx and the generated output file?
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