06/09/2014 by Nitesh

How To Create a Word Document using Spire.Doc

Friends,

Creating Word documents using .Net is always one of the tedious tasks. Today, in this post, we will see how can we create word documents using Spire.Doc library with ease. You can download the Spire.Doc library from here. Spire.Doc is present in Community as well as Commercial edition. You can use the community edition for reading/writing 100 paragraphas and 5 tables only. If your content is more than this, you will need to purchase the commercial edition.

To generate Word documents, you don’t need MS Office installed on your machine. Without wasting time, let us see how can we use this awesome product to create word documents on the fly. To write any word document, you need to follow the 4 basic steps –

Create a new Document or load an existing Document
Create a new Section
Create a new paragraph/Table/Picture
Save the Document

Code to create a new Word Document named Sample.docx and write a piece of content to the file:

            //Create word document
            Document document = new Document();
            //Create a new secition
            Section section = document.AddSection();
            //Create a new paragraph
            Paragraph paragraph = section.AddParagraph();
            //Append Text
            paragraph.AppendText("Writing my first Word document using Spire.Doc!");
            //Save doc file.
            document.SaveToFile("Sample.docx",FileFormat.Docx);

When you run the code, you will see a word file being created as below –