How to remove multiple rows from a table in a 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 remove multiple rows from a table in a Word Document using C#.
You can remove multiple rows from a table in a Word document using two approaches:
- Iterate through the table rows in reverse order and remove them (to avoid indexing issues).
- Store the rows in a separate instance before deleting them from the table (to prevent errors if a row no longer exists).
Steps to remove multiple rows from a table in a Word Document:
- Create a new .NET Core console application project.
- Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.
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- Include the following namespaces in Program.cs file
C#
using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
- Use the following code example to remove multiple rows from a table in a Word Document.
C#
Solution 1: Remove rows by iterating in reverse order
// Open the template document from the specified file path.
using (FileStream inputFileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
{
// Load the Word document.
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(inputFileStream, FormatType.Automatic))
{
// Access the first section of the document.
WSection section = document.Sections[0];
// Access the first table in the section.
WTable table = section.Tables[0] as WTable;
// Iterate through the table rows in reverse order to prevent index shifting issues.
for (int i = table.Rows.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
// Remove specific rows based on index (e.g., rows at index 2, 5, and 7).
if (i == 2 || i == 5 || i == 7)
{
WTableRow row = table.Rows[i];
table.Rows.Remove(row);
}
}
// Save the updated document to the output file.
using (FileStream outputFileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
document.Save(outputFileStream, FormatType.Docx);
}
}
}
Solution 2: Store rows separately before removing from table
// Open the template document from the specified file path.
using (FileStream inputFileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
{
// Load the Word document.
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(inputFileStream, FormatType.Automatic))
{
// Access the first section of the document.
WSection section = document.Sections[0];
// Access the first table in the section.
WTable table = section.Tables[0] as WTable;
// Get references to the rows to be removed.
WTableRow row2 = table.Rows[1];
WTableRow row3 = table.Rows[2];
// Remove the selected rows from the table.
table.Rows.Remove(row2);
table.Rows.Remove(row3);
// Save the updated document to the output file.
using (FileStream outputFileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
document.Save(outputFileStream, FormatType.Docx);
}
}
}
You can download a complete working sample to remove multiple rows from a table in a Word Document 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 remove multiple rows from a table in a Word Document in .NET Core Word document.
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