Question

This question started out with someone wanting to import every apparent ‘line of text’ in a Word document into a row in an Excel sheet, but I’m sure this is not possible without some development.

I would like to insert a newline (whatever that may be configured as) at every point that a string is wrapped to a new line when displayed in a window. How can I do that? I figure I would need to query the window and get an array of its text lines, then count characters in each line, and in the original string, insert a newline after the number of characters that are displayed for that line.

I do of course realise that changing the window size will invalidate all the work of this code I’m asking how to write, but that is not a relevant issue here.

USEFUL INFO:
I have found a solution to the original, Word to Excel export, problem. When you save a Word document as a text file, after you click Save on the Save dialogue, you are given another dialogue with an option for inserting line breaks.

Answer 1

What you can do is something like this:

int width = txtBox.width;
Graphics g = CreateGraphics();

SizeF size = g.MeasureString(myText, txtBox.Font);

if (size.Width > width)
{
    int i = 0;
    List<string> lines = new List<String>();
    string str = "";
    while (i<myText.Length)
    {

        str = str + myText.SubString(i,1);
        int w = (int)(g.MeasureString(str, txtBox.Font).Width);
        while (w<width && i<myText.Length)
        {
             i++;
             str = str + myText.SubString(i,1);
        }
        str = str + '\n';
    }

    // str now contains your newline formatted string
    return str;
}
return myText;