Question

After doing some research, it seems that you can use Word Interlop to manipulate Word document (Open, modify, change etc.). Like this:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Application ap = new Application();

        Document doc = ap.Documents.Open(@"C:\temp\TestDoc.docx");
        doc.Activate();
    }
}

But doing it that way, the MS word application itself with the GUI are not showing. I suspect it does not get started at all. I can only see WINWORD.EXE in the Processes tab of the Windows Task Manager but not in Applications tab.

What I want to do is:

1. Starting the MS Word application
2. open the document
3. Show it to the end user, so they can modify/save it.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

If you want to stick with using Office Interop, then I think you can get what you’re looking for by setting the Visible property of the Application instance to true after you open the document.

ap.Visible = true;