Question

I’m attempting to open a Word document, change some text and then save the changes to a new document. I can get the first bit done using the code below but I can’t figure out how to save the changes to a NEW document (specifying the path and file name).

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using System.IO;

namespace WordTest
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string template = @"c:\data\hello.docx";
        string documentText;

        using (WordprocessingDocument wordDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(template, true))
        {
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(wordDoc.MainDocumentPart.GetStream()))
            {
                documentText = reader.ReadToEnd();
            }


            documentText = documentText.Replace("##Name##", "Paul");
            documentText = documentText.Replace("##Make##", "Samsung");

            using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(wordDoc.MainDocumentPart.GetStream(FileMode.Create)))
            {
                writer.Write(documentText);
            }
        }
      }
    }
}

I’m a complete beginner at this, so forgive the basic question!

Answer 1

If you use a MemoryStream you can save the changes to a new file like this:

byte[] byteArray = File.ReadAllBytes("c:\\data\\hello.docx");
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
{
    stream.Write(byteArray, 0, (int)byteArray.Length);
    using (WordprocessingDocument wordDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(stream, true))
    {
       // Do work here
    }
    // Save the file with the new name
    File.WriteAllBytes("C:\\data\\newFileName.docx", stream.ToArray()); 
}