Feature-Rich Microsoft Word Document API Library for .NET 6+
Document Solutions for Word (DsWord, previously GcWord) allows you to generate Word documents with speed, memory efficiency with no dependencies.
- Generate, load, edit, and save Word documents
- Feature-rich object model based on Microsoft Office API
- Generate reports from scratch or use report templates
- Compatible on multiple platforms, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Deploy to Azure and AWS
Overview
A .NET Word API library is a programming interface that allows developers to programmatically create and manipulate Microsoft Word documents at scale. Document Solutions for Word (DsWord) is a solution that allows developers to import/export DOCX files, create reports & templates, and deploy Word documents across desktop and web applications
Benefits of a C# .NET Word API
Fast and Efficient
Save memory and time with the lightweight API architecture. The bigger the document, the faster our API generates complex Word documents.
Extract Data From Word Documents
Parse existing Word documents into databases or generate new Word documents as needed—extraction includes everything from text to paragraphs and images.
Simple, Convenient Object Model
This all-new, feature-rich object model, based on Microsoft Office API, Word JavaScript API, and OpenXML SDK, is straightforward and intuitive.
Full .NET Support for Windows, Linux, and Mac
Develop for any .NET platform or major operating systems with a single code base. Use in your apps for .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Android.
Convert Word to PDF and Images
In addition to generating Word documents, you can quickly and easily convert those documents to an image or PDF in code—a top use case for this fast API.
Deploy Apps With Word Docs to the Cloud
Be everywhere with cloud-based deployment. With NuGet and Document Solutions for Word, you can deploy to Azure, AWS, and AWS Lambda.
Generate Data-Bound Word Reports From Word (.docx) Report Templates
Use the comprehensive syntax and API to bind Word documents with data and generate Word .docx reports with advanced layouts.
Create and Modify Flow Charts, Flyers, and Company Logos
Add shapes from 188 Geometry types, 42 Themed shaped styles, and 29 Shape Presets. Create and manipulate existing shapes in Word documents. Apply unified properties on grouped shapes, canvas, and pictures.
Insert Online Video
Add link to an online video in the Word document using the .NET DsWord API, to later view it in MS Word DOCX or open the link in browser.
Find and Replace Text
Search simple text or find and replace pattern-based text, including regex patterns or unique tokens, and text-based on specific formatting.
Add Effects to Pictures
Enhance the visual appeal of Word documents by adding picture effects.
Generate Columnar Articles in Word Documents
DsWord supports Textboxes to highlight prominent text. You can also arrange your text in columns or sections in Word documents.
Generate Multi-Language Documents
Add text in multiple languages, including Far Eastern, vertical text, and Tate Chu Yoko, using a top-to-bottom, right-to-left page layout to a DOCX file.
Add Office Math Content in Word Documents
Read, add, edit, and display Office Math content in a Word document using DsWord’s OMathParagraph and OMath classes.
Our Top C# .NET Word API Features
Quick Start
This guide explains how to create a program that uses DsWord to generate and save a DOCX file with the typical "Hello, World!" text to a disk.
Load & Modify Existing DOCX Files
Load existing DOCX files and modify formatting, change theme colors, split or merge documents, copy paragraphs, and much more.
Find and Replace
Easily use C#/VB .NET code to find text in DOCX files, as well as replace all occurrences of text throughout the document, and insert text at specific locations.
Popular Word Document Formats
Create and work with a variety of popular Word documents. Input/Output includes DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX. Output includes PDF and PDF/A.
Styles
Work with built-in and user-defined styles that demonstrate common, table, list, character, and paragraph styles.
Content
Add and edit content and work with styles including word wrapping, tables, paragraph styles, image placement, and inline text options.
Insert, Modify, and Remove Document Elements
Insert, edit, and remove paragraphs, text, sections, images, tables, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, comments, bullet lists, numbered lists, fields, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and page breaks.
Templates
Create lists with built-in templates with formatting similar to lists in Microsoft Word, including level and level number.
Word (.docx) Report Templates
Use report templates to generate contracts, leases, consulting agreements, and more using data-bound Word .docx documents.
Tables
Work with tables that contain grid spans, alternative rows, conditional styles, and simple or nested groups.
Fields
Easily add fields to a document for a formatted date and/or time, hyperlinks to web content or other documents, and custom fields that modify the document content.
Shapes
Add and edit shapes from a wide range of geometric shapes, shape presets, and theme-based shape styles in Word documents.
Content
Add and edit content and work with styles for word wrapping, tables, and different paragraph styles. From basic adding, removing, editing, and content formatting to image placement and inline text options, DsWord can do it all.
Effects
Customize the look of your content in MS Word files and apply effects on Shapes and Text in Word .docx files.
Mail Merge
Implement mail merge using bookmarks in an MS Word DOCX with only a few lines of code and no dependency on Word.
Fancy Documents
Showcase multiple features within one document by utilizing fancy document layouts–showcasing several DsWord features.
Miscellaneous
Learn how to work with content controls, custom XML parts, glossary documents, style sources, sample paragraphs, JsFramework excerpts, and the Procurement Letter template in Word documents.
Embed Fonts
Define and embed fonts in MS Word documents to render the document correctly, even if the font is not available on the system.
Convert Markdown .md to Word .docx (Sample)
Full source code available to parse Markdown .md file using Markdig markdown processor (BSD 2-Clause license) and convert to Word .docx file using DsWord.
Password protect the exported PDF
Allow users to specify security-related features (e.g. password, limit copying, etc.) when converting Word .docx file to PDF.
Add Office Math Content in Word Documents
Add Office Math content to Word document. Also supported is Office Math to MathML conversion and vice versa.
Explore the Advanced Features of a .NET Word API
Your full-fledged ASP.NET Core sample browser includes all the major features, real-time DOCX, PDF, image files, and use cases. Download individual .NET Core samples that can run as a standalone. The demos also include full sample code with comments along every step to help you onboard quickly with Document Solutions for Word.
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