How to Display Field Result Horizontally in .NET Core Word?

Syncfusion Essential DocIO is a .NET Core Word library used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can display field result horizontally during group mail merge in a Word document using C#.

To display the merged field values in a horizontal format, place both BeginGroup and EndGroup in the same paragraph in Template Word document.

Steps to display field result horizontally during group mail merge in a Word document:

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.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO; 

4. Use the following code example to display field result horizontally during group mail merge in a Word document.
   C#

// Open the Word template document as a file stream.
using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath("Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
   //Loads an existing Word document into DocIO instance.
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStream, FormatType.Automatic))
   {
       //Gets the Person details as IEnumerable collection.
       List<Person> PersonList = GetPersons();
       //Creates an instance of MailMergeDataTable by specifying MailMerge group name and IEnumerable collection.
       MailMergeDataTable dataSource = new MailMergeDataTable("Person", PersonList);
       //Performs Mail merge.
       document.MailMerge.ExecuteGroup(dataSource);
       //Creates file stream.
       using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath("Output.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
       {
           //Saves the Word document to file stream.
           document.Save(outputStream, FormatType.Docx);
       }
   }
}

5. Use the following code example to gets the Person details to perform mail merge

public static List<Person> GetPersons()
{
   List<Person> Persons = new List<Person>();
   Persons.Add(new Person("Nancy"));
   Persons.Add(new Person("Andrew"));
   Persons.Add(new Person("Janet"));
   return Persons;
} 

6. Use the following code example to represents a class to maintain Person details.

public class Person
{
   public string FirstName { get; set; }

   public Person(string firstName)
   {
       FirstName = firstName;

   }
} 

You can download a complete working sample to display field result horizontally during group mail merge from the GitHub.

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 display field result horizontally in .NET Core Word.

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