Question

I have an object created in memory using Microsoft.Office.Interop and Microsoft.Office.Word and with all created, paragraphs, tables and the like. I need this object to generate a content byte [] to feed one field of the same type in a table.
The problem that I can not save it in any way physically with a oDoc.Save (“path”) in order to use a FileStream and solve my problem.

Have tried several solutions and how to use the clipboard, and did not work. Any solution?

Answer 1

Do you really have to use the Microsoft.Office.Interop and Microsoft.Office.Word?

If it is not really necessary, you could use the OpenXML SDK libraries for manipulating the content of the WordDocument.

OpenXML SDK contains a class WordprocessingDocument that can manipulate a memory stream containing a WordDocument content. And MemoryStream can be converted using ToArray() to a byte[].

As a code sample:

byte[] templateContent = File.ReadAllBytes(templateFile);

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
stream.Write(templateContent, 0, templateContent.Length);

WordprocessingDocument wordDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(stream, true);

// When done
byte[] contentOfWordFile = stream.toArray();