I was recently asked how to merge two Microsoft Word files. Here is a sample automation that you can import into your projects to perform that task. I will be adding more posts with other automations to help with automating Word in the coming days.
A couple of items for your attention:
- The WordConnector WordDocument property gives you access to all of the properties, methods and events of your document. Extract a proxy from that property and explore the wealth of options available.
- Many of the methods available in Word have a number of parameters that you may not need or want to provide. The MicrosoftExcel connector has a property called Missing which can be used to supply these parameters (we will add this to the MicrosoftWord connector soon).
- Many methods require special types of input but you cannot select the input directly on the block. Notice how we use a label to allow for selecting from a Word enum value and then passing that into a method.
- To learn what enum value to use, refer to Microsoft’s documentation found here- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.interop.word?view=word-pia. Find the name of the enum and then using the Browse option when adding a parameter navigate to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word to find the enum by name.
Hope this help you get started doing complex automations in Microsoft Word.
WordMerge.zip (6.21 KB)
