Export the content of content control into another word document

Question

Hi,

I have a word document with many content controls. How can I export the content of content control into another word document? I'm using C# and open xml sdk. Regards.

Answer 1

Are they bound to customxmlparts?

In straight VB, there is a ContentControls collection in the ActiveDocument. You can iterate through the collection and pull out the content that way.

I don't know if the OOXML SDK exposes the content controls in a document in an easy-to-get way.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Answer 2

Hi Jonathan, content controls are not bound to CustomXMLParts. I'm using Altchunck to merge multiple docx files into one document. Each docx file is inserted within a content control.The merged document is opened in a winforms application using DSOFramer. I want to update the source docx file when the content control content is modified. Regards.

Answer 3

Here are two great articles that will show you how to do this:

1. Using LINQ to XML to Retrieve Content Controls in Word 2007
2. Using Nested Content Controls for Data and Content Extraction from Open XML WordprocessingML Documents

Answer 4

Thanks Otaku, it is very useful.