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Extract text from opened Microsoft Word document

Mark Devid 1881 23-Dec-2013

I need to extract text (using C#, VS2012) from opened word document. I keep receiving an error that 'cannot access file, because it is being used by another process'. Is there any work around this? So I can extract text programmatically when document is opened in Microsoft Word?

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Updated on 23-Dec-2013
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Pravesh Singh

Pravesh Singh

23-Dec-2013
Hi Mark,

If you cannot open the document programmatically, I would connect to the running instance of Word, get a handle to the document, and ask for the text in it. Like this:

using System;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
namespace ConsoleApplication12
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var wordApp =(Application)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Word.Application");
            var words = wordApp.ActiveDocument.Words;
            foreach (Range word in words)
            {
               
Console.WriteLine(word.Text);
            }
        }
    }
}

Remember to reference the Word Interop assembly.

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