Replace text

The example shows you how to open a document and replace text. Replace searches the whole document, including tables, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, comments and text boxes, and returns the number of replaced occurrences. All properties of the replaced text, for example font, size, color or style, remain unchanged, even when an occurrence is split over several runs.

C# example

using System;
using Independentsoft.Office;
using Independentsoft.Office.Word;

namespace Sample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            WordDocument doc = new WordDocument("c:\\test\\input.docx");

            doc.Replace("[CustomerID]", "12345");
            doc.Replace("[CustomerName]", "John Smith");

            doc.Save("c:\\test\\output.docx", true);
        }
    }
}

C# example - Replace in the body only

using System;
using Independentsoft.Office;
using Independentsoft.Office.Word;

namespace Sample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            WordDocument doc = new WordDocument("c:\\test\\input.docx");

            //the headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes and comments are not searched
            FindOptions options = new FindOptions(SearchScope.Body);

            int count = doc.Replace("John Smith", "Mary Rose", options);

            Console.WriteLine(count + " occurrences replaced.");

            doc.Save("c:\\test\\output.docx", true);
        }
    }
}

VB example

Imports System
Imports Independentsoft.Office
Imports Independentsoft.Office.Word

Module Module1
    Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

        Dim doc As WordDocument = New WordDocument("c:\test\input.docx")

        doc.Replace("[CustomerID]", "12345")
        doc.Replace("[CustomerName]", "John Smith")

        doc.Save("c:\test\output.docx", True)

    End Sub
End Module

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