help needed on Word._Document.Words property

Hi,
I am using Office XP PIA's to read a word document. I am able to read the whole content. The problem is that i want to get a particular word in the document instead of the whole content.
Will the _Document.Words property is useful to retrieve word by word form the document??? If it is possible, How to use it???

thanks
Nelluru

It's hard to do Word automation in .NET, but, yes, you can use he Words collection. This example shows word 6 in the doc:
You can see how to use other Word objects in .NET at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316384

hi,
Please help me..
I am getting this error:
'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Words' does not contain a definition for 'Item'.

Code is:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Words w = wdDoc.Words;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w.Item(2);

I have included Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word dll in my project. And I am using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition.

What would be the reason??
Is there anything I am missing???

thanks in Advance
Nelluru

Hi,
I am using Office XP PIA's to read a word document. I am able to read the whole content. The problem is that i want to get a particular word in the document instead of the whole content.
Will the _Document.Words property is useful to retrieve word by word form the document??? If it is possible, How to use it???

thanks
Nelluru

Just a word of caution. If you are used to working with Word macros, then you will have a tendency to put Word objects together like wdDoc.Words.Item(6) instead of dealing with each object separately. This will not always work with C#. VBA kept a lot of details from us & pushed stuff into Variants. C# will not do this, but if you single step through your code, you can usually see what intermediate objects you need to create. I haven't done this with Word, but I have done it with Excel and it was very painful

Just a word of caution. If you are used to working with Word macros, then you will have a tendency to put Word objects together like wdDoc.Words.Item(6) instead of dealing with each object separately. This will not always work with C#. VBA kept a lot of details from us & pushed stuff into Variants. C# will not do this, but if you single step through your code, you can usually see what intermediate objects you need to create. I haven't done this with Word, but I have done it with Excel and it was very painful

Hi Sam,
I have already posted the message in the Forum http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread629828.html . As I did not get any reply, I sent u a private message. And I am also sorry for the late reply. I didn't understand this reply. Can u please elaborate the reply???

Hi Sam,
I have already posted the message in the Forum http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread629828.html . As I did not get any reply, I sent u a private message. And I am also sorry for the late reply. I didn't understand this reply. Can u please elaborate the reply???

Sorry about the confusion. I didn't see your other post. I used a different reference: Microsoft Word x.x Object Library on the COM tab. I don't see Microsoft Office Interop, but I'm at work, stuck with Word 2000. I'll check when I get home, but it may be next week before I have time. I assume Interop is a DotNet thing, so could it be something simple like Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w[2]; instead of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w.Item(2); Just a wild guess. --Sam

Hi Sam,
I have already posted the message in the Forum http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread629828.html . As I did not get any reply, I sent u a private message. And I am also sorry for the late reply. I didn't understand this reply. Can u please elaborate the reply???

Yes, from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ds(vs.80).aspx, I think w[2] will give you a Range object for the third word in the document.

Hi Sam,
I have already posted the message in the Forum http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread629828.html . As I did not get any reply, I sent u a private message. And I am also sorry for the late reply. I didn't understand this reply. Can u please elaborate the reply???

Well, I'm confused. I'm trying to verify if my replies are correct, but I cannot get the PIA installed. At home here I'm still running Office XP, but that's not a problem: I found the link to download the PIAs, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en. This is a self-extracting zip, so I unzipped them and there is installation instructions in the Readme.htm. But the instructions assume that you have Visual Studio 2005 installed. How did you install the dll's with C# Express (which is what we both have)? Specifically, the install scripts need gacutil which is not on my machine. :confused: Sam

Sammy do you still need action on this thread?

hi,
Please help me..
I am getting this error:
'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Words' does not contain a definition for 'Item'.

Code is:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Words w = wdDoc.Words;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w.Item(2);

I have included Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word dll in my project. And I am using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition.

What would be the reason??
Is there anything I am missing???

thanks in Advance
Nelluru

I decided to see what would happen if I tried to use the Interop.Word dll without installation. Everything worked fine. I did have to browse for the dll, but I expected that. Maybe the "install" just makes the dll's visible on the References NET tab. Anyway, this code works for me:
Does that help? --Sam

I decided to see what would happen if I tried to use the Interop.Word dll without installation. Everything worked fine. I did have to browse for the dll, but I expected that. Maybe the "install" just makes the dll's visible on the References NET tab. Anyway, this code works for me:

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1. const string DOC = @"C:\Documents and Settings\Sam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\WordAutomation\Demo.doc";
2. object ms = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
3. //Word._Application wdApp = new Word.Application();
4. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application wdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();
5. wdApp.Visible = true;
6. object oDoc = (object)DOC;
7. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Open(ref oDoc, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms);
8. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Words w = wdDoc.Words;
9. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w[2];
10. MessageBox.Show(r.Text);

Does that help? --Sam

Hi Sam,
I am very sorry. I didn't checked the posts.What you suggested is working fine i.e., Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w[2]. I don't have any problems.
I am using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition with Office 2000. As far as the PIA's are concerned I didn't installed them. The same way as you have done( I am just using the Browse option to locate the Office dll's and just adding them.). Everything working fine now.
I am very thankful to you Sam and once again sorry for the late posts.
warm regards
Nelluru

I decided to see what would happen if I tried to use the Interop.Word dll without installation. Everything worked fine. I did have to browse for the dll, but I expected that. Maybe the "install" just makes the dll's visible on the References NET tab. Anyway, this code works for me:

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1. const string DOC = @"C:\Documents and Settings\Sam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\WordAutomation\Demo.doc";
2. object ms = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
3. //Word._Application wdApp = new Word.Application();
4. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application wdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();
5. wdApp.Visible = true;
6. object oDoc = (object)DOC;
7. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Open(ref oDoc, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms, ref ms);
8. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Words w = wdDoc.Words;
9. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range r = w[2];
10. MessageBox.Show(r.Text);

Does that help? --Sam

Hi Sam,
As I am using Office 2000, I had another problem. I have to use
wdApp.Documents.Open2000() instead of wdApp.Documents.Open().
when I am using Open() it is giving an Exception saying that:

Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Documents.Open(Objec t& FileName, Object& ConfirmConversions, Object& ReadOnly, Object& AddToRecentFiles, Object& PasswordDocument, Object& PasswordTemplate, Object& Revert, Object& WritePasswordDocument, Object& WritePasswordTemplate, Object& Format, Object& Encoding, Object& Visible, Object& OpenAndRepair, Object& DocumentDirection, Object& NoEncodingDialog)


The issue is that the Open2000 will not work if another system contains Office Xp. Open() should be used for that.
What would be the problem?? Is there anything for the backward compatability???

Hi Sam,
As I am using Office 2000, I had another problem. I have to use
wdApp.Documents.Open2000() instead of wdApp.Documents.Open().
when I am using Open() it is giving an Exception saying that:

Attempted to read or write protected memory. bla, bla ...

The issue is that the Open2000 will not work if another system contains Office Xp. Open() should be used for that.
What would be the problem?? Is there anything for the backward compatability???

I thought that I read somewhere that the PIAs only work for Office 2002 and later, but if that is the case, why do they have Open2000? I think that I would not use the PIA's. See if you can use the COM directly as I did in post #2. You just use the COM tab to add a reference to Microsoft Word Object Library, then see if my code work for Word 2K. I may be in the office tomorrow (I have 2000 there) and I will try it also.