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Create/Read/Write Word Document using Open XML

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Hi there,

I prepare a new Word template and save it as a file .dotx. The template contains bookmark and table with a single row and two columns.

In the AOT, I create a new job and using COM, I add values to the bookmarks and by using while select, I am adding values from table to the left column. Then I generate .docx Word document that includes these values.

Instead of using COM, I would like to use openXML to create Microsoft Word document and add values to the bookmarks and by using while select, add values from table to the left column in the table raw and then, read values from my bookmarks and from the right columns and save it to the AX table.

I find some examples how to read/write data from Microsoft Excel document, but that don't help me. Also for some reason, most of the examples are in C# instead of X++.

Could you advise me or show some example how to do it using openXML and X++?

Thank you.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 237,807 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Here is a trivial example as a starting point for you:

    using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;

class WordDocReader
{        
    public static void main(Args _args)
    {     
        str filePath = @"c:\Temp\test.docx";

        using (WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument::Open(FilePath, false))
        {
            str bodyText = doc.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.InnerText;
            info(bodyText);
        }
    }
}

    By the way, you shouldn't be afraid of examples in C#, it's very similar to X++.

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    Thanks. So the code read everything between body I assume.  

    (from Open XML SDK productivity tool)

    <w:document>

    <w:body>

    <w:p/>

    </w:body>

    </w:document>

    Could you give me example how to read bookmark name Test?

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 237,807 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Look at How to work with bookmarks in Word OpenXML on GitHub. Because it uses generic methods (e.g. Descendants<BookmarkStart>()), it will be much easier if you write this part in C# and merely call it from X++.

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