CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#htmlms-word
kalenwatermeyer
kalenwatermeyer

Reputation: 741

C#: Inserting HTML content -> MS Word: images & tables autoscaling (i.e losing width & height style attributes)

I am using C# to generate reports in MS Word. I have a predefined .docx template and I use mail merge fields which are then updated by my app.

I retrieve small sections of HTML content from a database and insert them into the appropriate points in the MS Word document as follows:

  1. I retrieve the HTML content

  2. I wrap the content with tags:

    <HTML> <TITLE></TITLE> <BODY> ... content ... </BODY> </HTML>

  3. Save html content into a temporary file

  4. Use the Word._Application.Selection.InsertFile() method to insert the HTML file

Example of converted HTML code:

<html>
<title></title>
<body>
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 700px; ">
    <tbody>
    <tr>
        <td style="padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 150px; ">
            <img alt="see attached image: screenshot-3.jpg" src="XXXXX/screenshot-3.jpg" style="width: 60px; height: 84px; " />
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
</body>
</html>

The above system works, but I find that tables and images are 'auto-scaled' by MS Word, with images being rendered with their original dimensions as opposed to the embedded style="width, height" attributes.

My HTML is rendered 100% in a browser, but not in MS Word.

Any ideas on how to get my scaling right would be most appreciated.

Many thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1675

Answers (1)

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354576

In my experience HTML may be the easiest way of getting rich text into a Word document, but it's also prone to get formatting wrong and you don't have control over the finer details.

Have you tried using the width and height attributes for the img element? Another option might be to try using RTF (which is on par with Word, feature-wise).

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions