How to Add Image Captions Without Numbers in Core Word Document?

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 add image captions without numbers in a Word document using C#.

Steps to add image captions without numbers in a Word document:

1. Create a new .NET Core console application project.
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIORenderer.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.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.DocIORenderer;
using System.IO;

4. Use the following code example to add image captions without numbers in a Word document.
   C#

//Creates a new Word document.
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument())
{
   //Add a new section to the document.
   IWSection section = document.AddSection();
   //Create a new paragraph and append a Table of Contents (TOC).
   IWParagraph paragraph = section.AddParagraph();
   TableOfContent tableOfContent = paragraph.AppendTOC(1, 3);
   //Disable a flag to exclude heading style paragraphs in TOC entries.
   tableOfContent.UseHeadingStyles = false;
   //Set the name of SEQ field identifier for table of figures.
   tableOfContent.TableOfFiguresLabel = "Figure";

   //Add a new paragraph for the first image.
   paragraph = section.AddParagraph();
   //Add the first image to the paragraph.
   FileStream imageStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/MountainCycle.jpg"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
   IWPicture picture = paragraph.AppendPicture(imageStream);
   //Add an image caption.
   paragraph = picture.AddCaption("Figure", CaptionNumberingFormat.Number, CaptionPosition.AfterImage);
   //Add text to the caption paragraph.
   paragraph.AppendText(" " + "Mountain-Cycle");
   //Apply formatting to the caption.
   paragraph.ParagraphFormat.BeforeSpacing = 8;
   paragraph.ParagraphFormat.AfterSpacing = 8;
   //Hide the caption numbering.
   WSeqField field = paragraph.ChildEntities[1] as WSeqField;
   field.HideResult = true;
   
   //Add a new paragraph for the second image.
   paragraph = section.AddParagraph();
   //Add the second image to the paragraph.
   imageStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/RoadCycle.jpg"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
   picture = paragraph.AppendPicture(imageStream);
   //Add an image caption.
   paragraph = picture.AddCaption("Figure", CaptionNumberingFormat.Number, CaptionPosition.AfterImage);
   //Add text to the caption paragraph.
   paragraph.AppendText(" " + "Road-Cycle");
   //Apply formatting to the caption.
   paragraph.ParagraphFormat.BeforeSpacing = 8;
   paragraph.ParagraphFormat.AfterSpacing = 8;
   //Hide the caption numbering.
   field = paragraph.ChildEntities[1] as WSeqField;
   field.HideResult = true;

   //Update the fields in the Word document.
   document.UpdateDocumentFields();
   //Update the Table of Contents (TOC).
   document.UpdateTableOfContents();
   //Create file stream.
   using (FileStream outputFileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
   {
       //Save the Word document to file stream.
       document.Save(outputFileStream, FormatType.Docx);
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to add image captions without numbers in a Word document 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

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