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Monday, August 11, 2008

How To: Merge Multiple Microsoft Word Documents in ASP.net

In this post i will show how to combine multiple word document in asp,net using " Microsoft Office Interop Assemblies"



<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Merge.aspx.cs" Inherits="Merge" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
&nbsp;<table>
<tr>
<td style="width: 100px">
File1</td>
<td style="width: 100px">
<asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload1" runat="server" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 100px">
File2</td>
<td style="width: 100px">
<asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload2" runat="server" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 100px">
</td>
<td style="width: 100px">
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click" Text="Merge" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>


using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;


public partial class Merge : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{


}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string[] strFiles ={ FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName,FileUpload2.PostedFile.FileName };
MsWord.Merge(strFiles, "c:\\output.doc", true);
}
}
public class MsWord
{
/// <summary>
/// This is the default Word Document Template file
/// </summary>
private const string defaultWordDocumentTemplate = @"Normal.dot";

/// <summary>
/// A function that merges Microsoft Word Documents that uses the default template
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filesToMerge">An array of files that we want to merge</param>
/// <param name="outputFilename">The filename of the merged document</param>
/// <param name="insertPageBreaks">Set to true if you want to have page breaks inserted after each document</param>
public static void Merge(string[] filesToMerge, string outputFilename, bool insertPageBreaks)
{
Merge(filesToMerge, outputFilename, insertPageBreaks, defaultWordDocumentTemplate);
}

/// <summary>
/// A function that merges Microsoft Word Documents that uses a template specified by the user
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filesToMerge">An array of files that we want to merge</param>
/// <param name="outputFilename">The filename of the merged document</param>
/// <param name="insertPageBreaks">Set to true if you want to have page breaks inserted after each document</param>
/// <param name="documentTemplate">The word document you want to use to serve as the template</param>
public static void Merge(string[] filesToMerge, string outputFilename, bool insertPageBreaks, string documentTemplate)
{
object defaultTemplate = documentTemplate;
object missing = System.Type.Missing;
object pageBreak = Word.WdBreakType.wdPageBreak;
object outputFile = outputFilename;

// Create a new Word application
Word._Application wordApplication = new Word.Application();

try
{
// Create a new file based on our template
Word._Document wordDocument = wordApplication.Documents.Add(
ref defaultTemplate
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing);

// Make a Word selection object.
Word.Selection selection = wordApplication.Selection;

// Loop thru each of the Word documents
foreach (string file in filesToMerge)
{
// Insert the files to our template
selection.InsertFile(
file
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing);

//Do we want page breaks added after each documents?
if (insertPageBreaks)
{
selection.InsertBreak(ref pageBreak);
}
}

// Save the document to it's output file.
wordDocument.SaveAs(
ref outputFile
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing
, ref missing);

// Clean up!
wordDocument = null;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{

throw ex;
}
finally
{
// Finally, Close our Word application
wordApplication.Quit(ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
}
}
}

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