When converting a Word form to a web form, I was looking for a way to extract the items of the dropdown fields found in the Word document to avoid typing them manually in my web app. I found that you can access the field definitions from C# by using the Word Interop COM library. The following is a program that extracts each item in the dropdown boxes and prints them to the screen:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
namespace WordDataExtractTest
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application wordapp = new Application();
var strDocName = "doc_file_with_form.doc";
var doc = wordapp.Documents.Open(strDocName);
foreach( FormField form_field in doc.FormFields)
{
if (form_field.Type == WdFieldType.wdFieldFormDropDown)
{
AddLine(form_field.Name);
foreach (ListEntry entry in form_field.DropDown.ListEntries)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(entry.Name)
{
AddLine(" ,"+ entry.Name);
}
}
}
}
Console.In.ReadLine();
}
public static void AddLine(string line)
{
Console.Out.WriteLine(line);
}
}
}
