Generate Word Document Using C#

Introduction

In this post, we will learn how to use DocX library to create a Word document from Visual Studio using C# language.

As we will see in this article, DocX is an open source library which is able to create a Word document from scratch by using a lot of methods and properties that help us to insert paragraphs, formatting text, style (color, size), images, tables etc… I hope it will be helpful for you.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed Visual Studio 2017 (.Net Framework 4.6.1).

In this post, we are going to:

• Install DocX library.
• Create Hello World using Docx library.
• Formatting text.
• Add image.
• Add table.
• Add Hyperlink.

So let’s discover DocX library.

Install DocX library

In solution explorer, right click on References >> Manage NuGet Packages.

Now, in search input, type Docx, then select the first line as shown below, and click Install.

Create Console application

Open Visual Studio and select File >> New Project.

The "New Project" window will pop up. Select Console App (.NET Framework), name your project, and click OK.

Create Hello World using Docx library

Let’s describe step by step the code snippet above.

We are declaring fileName variable which contains the location path of our word document, then we called Create() method that accepts fileName as parameter.

After creating the Word document, we proceeded to insert “Hello World” by using InsertParagraph() method. Finally, we saved the document with the new text.

To run the program, press on F5 and we will see the output as shown below.

Output

Formatting Text

As you can see in the code snippet above. We have added variables for text and title.

Now, let’s formatting title and text by adding the following code snippet.

Formatting Title code snippet

Formatting Text code snippet