I am using Word interop and C#.
I have a collection of address lines and I want to replace the placeholder #Address in my word document.
In my C# code I replace the List<string> collection of lines with a string which has line breaks in it, as in
Environment.NewLine
However the line breaks are NOT output on the document. How do I fix this?
The code looks like;
public static void PrintAddress(string companyName, List<string> lines, string outputFolder) { // TODO put in linebreak for each line of the address lines.Insert(0, companyName); var lineEnd = "," + Environment.NewLine; var addressLines = string.Join(lineEnd, lines.ToArray()); var application = newApplication(); var path = Path.Combine(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(AppSettings.UploadFolder), SessionObjectsSCD.UploadedFile.FileName); var document = application.Documents.Open(path); WordDocumentClass.FindAndReplace(document, "#ADDRESS", addressLines); object filename = string.Format("{0}/{1}.docx", outputFolder, companyName); document.SaveAs(ref filename); if (AppSettings.EnvironmentSetting.ToUpper() != "DEV") { document.PrintOut(); } application.Quit(); } public static void FindAndReplace(Document document, string placeHolder, string newText) { object missingObject = null; object item = WdGoToItem.wdGoToPage; object whichItem = WdGoToDirection.wdGoToFirst; object replaceAll = WdReplace.wdReplaceAll; object forward = true; object matchAllWord = true; object matchCase = false; object originalText = placeHolder; object replaceText = newText; document.GoTo(ref item, ref whichItem, ref missingObject, ref missingObject); foreach (Range rng in document.StoryRanges) { rng.Find.Execute( ref originalText, ref matchCase, ref matchAllWord, ref missingObject, ref missingObject, ref missingObject, ref forward, ref missingObject, ref missingObject, ref replaceText, ref replaceAll, ref missingObject, ref missingObject, ref missingObject, ref missingObject); } }
Probably also this code can be refactored for C# 4, I haven't got round to that yet.