How to resize list character in a Word document?

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Syncfusion® Essential® DocIO is a .NET Core Word library used to create, read, and edit Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or Interop dependencies. Using this library, you can resize list characters in a Word document in C#.

Steps to resize list characters in a Word document:

Create a new C# .NET Core console application project.
Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package to reference your .NET Core applications from NuGet.org.
Include the following namespace in the Program.cs file.

using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;

Use the following code example to resize list characters in a Word document.

using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../../Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
    //Open the template document.
    using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStreamPath, FormatType.Automatic))
    {
        //Iterate through each section of the Word document.
        foreach (WSection section in document.Sections)
        {
            //Access the body of section where all the contents in document are apart.
            WTextBody sectionBody = section.Body;
            IterateTextBody(sectionBody);
            IterateHeaderFooter(section);
        }
        //Create file stream.
        using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../../Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
        {
            //Save the Word document to file stream.
            document.Save(outputStream, FormatType.Docx);
        }
    }
}

Use the following helper methods to resize list characters in a Word document.

/// <summary>
/// Iterate through the headers and footers.
/// </summary>
 private static void IterateHeaderFooter(WSection section)
{
    WHeadersFooters headersFooters = section.HeadersFooters;
    //Iterate through the textBody of all Headers and Footers.
    IterateTextBody(headersFooters.OddHeader);
    IterateTextBody(headersFooters.OddFooter);
    IterateTextBody(headersFooters.EvenHeader);
    IterateTextBody(headersFooters.EvenFooter);
    IterateTextBody(headersFooters.FirstPageHeader);
    IterateTextBody(headersFooters.FirstPageFooter);
}
 
/// <summary>
/// Iterate through document textbody.
/// </summary>
private static void IterateTextBody(WTextBody textBody)
{
    //Iterate through each of the child items of WTextBody
    for (int i = 0; i < textBody.ChildEntities.Count; i++)
    {
        //Access the body items (should be either paragraph, table or block content control) as IEntity
        IEntity bodyItemEntity = textBody.ChildEntities[i];
        //Decide the element type by using the EntityType
        switch (bodyItemEntity.EntityType)
        {
            case EntityType.Paragraph:
                WParagraph paragraph = bodyItemEntity as WParagraph;
                //Change the list character size.
                if (paragraph.ListFormat != null && paragraph.ListFormat.CurrentListLevel != null)
                            paragraph.ListFormat.CurrentListLevel.CharacterFormat.FontSize = 25;
                break;
            case EntityType.Table:
                //Iterate through table.
                IterateTable(bodyItemEntity as WTable);
                break;
            case EntityType.BlockContentControl:
                BlockContentControl blockContentControl = bodyItemEntity as BlockContentControl;
                //Iterate to the body items of the Block Content Control.
                IterateTextBody(blockContentControl.TextBody);
                break;
        }
    } 
}
/// <summary>
/// Iterate through document table.
/// </summary>
private static void IterateTable(WTable table)
{
    //Iterate the row collection in a table
    foreach (WTableRow row in table.Rows)
    {
        //Iterate the cell collection in a table row.
        foreach (WTableCell cell in row.Cells)
        {
            IterateTextBody(cell);
        }
    }
}

A complete working sample to resize list characters in a Word document in C# can be downloaded from GitHub.

By executing the program, you will get the Output document as follows.

Output document generated in ASP.NET Core Word

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How to resize list character in a Word document?

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