Question

I am working on a project which involves getting data from a .doc or a .docx file. The input requirements are in a tabular format. Is it possible to retrieve data from table in a row wise manner or as a dataset.I am using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word to get the data from the doc file.

Answer 1

You can use the property Tables of the Document interface to get a collection with all the tables in your document. For each Table in this collection you can get the rows and for each row the cells.

I.e. if app is your Application object you can write something like this to get the text contained in each cell(supposing that there is exactly one in your doc):

    string aCellText;
    foreach (Row aRow in Application.ActiveDocument.Tables[0].Rows)
        foreach (Cell aCell in aRow.Cells)
            aCellText = aCell.Range.Text;