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Asked: 2026-05-20T22:58:52+00:00

I creating a C# application that has to create a word document. I’m using

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I creating a C# application that has to create a word document.

I’m using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word to do this and I’ve successfully managed to output some word documents, but creating the content trough the code is a very time consuming work.

I noted that word is able to open html pages and show it as a normal content so I created a simple test table in html and inserted it into the word document. But when I outputted the document the obvious happened: The tags where still there! Word did not format the tags as html. It just outputted exactly what I put in there.

How can I tell word to reformat the text as html?

edit: (trough the C# code of course)

edit 2: Please note that I’m parsing trough some data to make this, so I will end up with about 4 pages of the same table/html, so I will need to be able to tell word to start at the next page each time I’ve finished a loop. So a html-only method will probably not work.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As requested by the OP, and to make easier for others to find this solution, here it goes the answer I posted as a comment (plus extra results from testing):

    When opening an HTML file, MS Word honors the CSS properties page-break-before and page-break-after. There is a caveat, however:

    On “Web design” view, page-breaks are never shown (this doesn’t mean that they aren’t there), just like browsers don’t “show” them. And Word opens html files on Web design view by default (which quite makes sense). You need to print the document or switch to some other view (typicall “Print design”) to see your breaks in all their glory.

    So, saving an HTML file with a .doc extension is a viable solution (also tested: Word opens it properly despite of the extension).

    Note: all the testing was done on MS Word 2003 using this snippet: <html>asdf<br style="page-break-before: always;">new page!</html>

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