How to copy style between Word documents

Syncfusion® Essential® DocIO is a .NET Word Library used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can copy style between Word documents using C#.

To achieve this, follow the steps below,

• Retrieve a custom paragraph style from the source document.
• Clone the retrieved style and add it to the destination document.
• Apply the newly added style to the required paragraph in the destination document.

Steps to copy style between Word documents:

1. Create a new .NET Core console application project.
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.
   
   

3. Include the following namespaces in Program.cs file.
   C#

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

4. Use the following code example to copy style between Word documents.
   C#

using (FileStream destinationStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/DestinationDocument.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
   //Open the destination document.
   using (WordDocument destinationDocument = new WordDocument(destinationStream, FormatType.Docx))
   {
       using (FileStream sourceStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/SourceDocument.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
       {
           //Open the source document.
           using (WordDocument sourceDocument = new WordDocument(sourceStream, FormatType.Docx))
           {
               // Retrieve the specific style from the source document.
               WParagraphStyle paraStyle = sourceDocument.Styles.FindByName("MyStyle") as WParagraphStyle;
               // Add the retrieved style to the destination document.
               destinationDocument.Styles.Add(paraStyle.Clone());
               // Get the first paragraph in the destination document.
               WParagraph paragraph = destinationDocument.Sections[0].Body.ChildEntities[0] as WParagraph;
               // Apply the retrieved style to the paragraph in the destination document.
               paragraph.ApplyStyle("MyStyle");
               // Save the destination document.
               using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
               {
                   destinationDocument.Save(outputStream, FormatType.Docx);
               }
           }
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to copy style between Word documents from the GitHub.

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

Take a moment to peruse the documentation where you can find basic Word document processing options along with the features like mail merge, merge, split, and compare Word documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly, the PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to copy style between Word documents.

You can refer to our ASP.NET Core DocIO feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our ASP.NET Core DocIO example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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