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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 784

Change default document layout when generating word document from OpenXML in C#

I've been able to generate a simple word document using a format similar to the format used in this SO question, however whenever I open the document it opens in print layout view. Is there a way that I can programmatically make it open in web layout view by default?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1603

Answers (1)

petelids
petelids

Reputation: 12815

Yes, you can by using a OpenXML.WordProcessing.View. You need to create a View with its Val set to ViewValues.Web. Then you need to create a Settings object and append the view to it. Finally, you need to create a DocumentSettingsPart and set its Settings property to the settings object you've created.

That sounds worse than it is, below is a complete method taking the code from the question you mention plus code for the above. I've removed the memory stream code from that answer to simplify things; this code will create a file on disk.

public static void CreateWordDoc(string filename)
{
    using (var wordDocument = WordprocessingDocument.Create(filename, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document))
    {
        // Add a main document part. 
        MainDocumentPart mainPart = wordDocument.AddMainDocumentPart();

        // Create the document structure and add some text.
        mainPart.Document = new Document();
        Body body = mainPart.Document.AppendChild(new Body());
        Paragraph para = body.AppendChild(new Paragraph());
        Run run = para.AppendChild(new Run());
        run.AppendChild(new Text("Hello world!"));

        //the following sets the default view when loading in Word
        DocumentSettingsPart documentSettingsPart = mainPart.AddNewPart<DocumentSettingsPart>();
        Settings settings = new Settings();
        View view1 = new View() { Val = ViewValues.Web };
        settings.Append(view1);
        documentSettingsPart.Settings = settings;

        mainPart.Document.Save();
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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