Fast, powerful Word API for .NET Core 2.0
Take total control of your Word documents in code, with no dependencies on Microsoft Word
- Generate, load, edit, and save Word documents
- Parse complex documents like resumes, newsletters, and invoices
- Convert Word documents to PDF
- Work with the intuitive, easy-to-use API features like ranges, sections, and styles
- Insert, modify, and remove a variety
of document elements - Deploy to Azure and AWS
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Fast and efficient
Save memory and time with the lightweight API architecture. The bigger the document, the faster our API generates complex Word documents
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Extract data from Word documents
Parse existing Word documents into databases, or generate new Word documents as needed—extraction includes everything from text to paragraphs to images.
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Simple, convenient object model
This all-new, feature-rich object model is based on Microsoft Office API, Word JavaScript API, and OpenXML SDK, was written to be straightforward and intuitive
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Full .NET Core 2.0 support for Windows, Linux, and Mac
Develop for any .NET platform, for major operating systems, with a single code base. Use in your apps for .NET Core 2.0+, .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Android
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Convert Word to PDF
In addition to generating Word documents, you can quickly, easily convert those documents to PDF in code—a top use case for this fast API
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Deploy apps with Word docs to the cloud
Be everywhere with cloud-based deployment—with NuGet and Documents for Word, you can deploy to Azure, AWS, and AWS Lambda
Format ranges of text and full paragraphs
Apply styles, formatting, and fonts to ranges of text and paragraphs.
Try DemoCreate and work with sections in Word documents
Customize sections
- Different headers and footers
- Edit page orientation and sizes
- Apply styles
Organize content in a table layout
Layout data in rows and columns with full Table support
- Control page breaks
- Insert graphic elements inside the table
- Insert tables in the header
- Apply table formatting properties
- Autofit contents of cell
Work with document elements
- Get and set built-in document properties
- Get content objects and manipulate them
- Preserve VBA macros and digital signatures when loading and saving docs
Insert, modify and remove document elements
Insert, edit, and remove paragraphs, text, sections, images, tables, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, comments, bullet lists, numbered lists, fields, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and page breaks
Support for popular Word document formats
Create and work with a variety of popular Word documents. Input/Output includes DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, DOTX; Input includes FlatOPC, FlatOpcMacroEnabled, FlatOpcTemplate, FlatOpcTemplateEnabled; and Output includes PDF and PDF/A.
Apply 375 built-in styles and create custom styles
Apply built-in styles on text, paragraphs, and lists. Create custom styles with font properties like bold, italic, and underline. List properties include level, and level number, and paragraph properties include indentation, keep together, word wrap, and more.
Select from 21 built-in templates for bulleted and numbered lists
Create lists with built-in templates with formatting similar to lists in Microsoft Word, including level and level number.
Explore the advanced features of this Word API
Click through to view the code and download the sample
- Create, Save, and Load Files
- DOCX
- DOTM
- DOCM
- DOTX
- Load Files and Save to DOCX, PDF
- FlatOPC
- FlatOpcMacroEnabled
- FlatOpcTemplate
- FlatOpcTemplateEnabled
- Create, Save, and Load Documents
- Load a DOCX file in code
- Create documents at high speed
- Create a long document in code
- Convert a DOCX file to PDF
- Edit and Format Characters
- Character styles
- Format fonts
- Format colors
- Format borders
- Format shading
- Modify format
- Modify text
- Work with Sections, Headers, and Footers
- Add columns to sections
- Insert, edit, and remove headers
- Insert, edit, and remove footers
- Insert, edit, and remove footnotes
- Insert, edit, and remove endnotes
- Work with document sections
- Edit paper size per section
- Edit margins per section
- Edit page orientation per section
- Export Special Formatting to PDF (NEW)
- Subscript and superscript (NEW)
- RightToLeft characters (NEW)
- Vertical text (NEW)
- East Asian languages (NEW)
- Render Latin characters horizontally (Tate chu yoko) (NEW)
- Edit Document Navigation
- Hyperlinks
- Bookmarks
- Work with Images, Shapes, and Drawing Objects
- Add image
- Modify images
- Shapes
- Charts
- Diagrams
- Work with Dynamic Fields
- Date And Time
- Add and Edit Tables
- Create a simple table
- Format alternating rows in a table
- Add conditional table styles
- Merge cells across rows and columns
- Page Formatting
- Page setup
- Page size
- Margins
- Page numbering
- Line numbering
- Multi-page printing
- Work with Comments
- Add and remove comments to selected text
- Add and remove replies
- Resolve comments
- Edit and Format Lists
- Bullet Lists
- Numbered List
- Set Themes (NEW)
- Use theme colors in documents (NEW)
- Built-In Styles (NEW)
- Full list of styles (NEW)
- Common styles (NEW)
- Character styles (NEW)
- Paragraph styles (NEW)
- Table styles (NEW)
- List templates (NEW)
- Create Templates
- Mail Merge Bookmarks
- Create Complex Documents
- Procurement Letter
Documents for Word Samples Browser
Your full-fledged ASP.NET Core sample browser includes all the major features, real-time DOCX and PDF files, and use cases. Download individual .NET Core samples that can run as standalones. The demos also include full sample code with comments on every step that can help bring you onboard quickly with Documents for Word.
Launch the DemoWhat's New
Export East Asian text to PDF
GcWord API adds support for RightToLeft, vertical text and East Asian Languages to render documents in multiple languages in DOCX files and export them to PDF.
Set view options allows you to control the view type and zoom type of the document when it opens, and additional properties.
Adding CompatibilityOptions to the Word files makes sure that the Word documents created in different versions work well and retain the properties when opened in newer versions.
Hyphenation can now be controlled using GcWord HyphenationOptions class that provides various options to either automatically hyphenate the document that you create, or set option to use the hyphenation tool to manually hyphenate your document.
Now you can generate multiple instances of GcWord Document in just few seconds, and creating a GcWordDocument is four times faster than before.
You can set theme colors and modify existing themes, and set color schemes that define the colors for background and text in your documents
You can apply superscript and subscript settings to text in chemical compounds, formulas, mathematical expressions, etc., and GcWord now supports exporting superscript/subscript text to PDF.
What's New Roadmap