How to Keep Paragraphs Inside a Table in ASP.NET Core Word?

Syncfusion; Essential ASP.NET Core DocIO feature tour used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can keep paragraphs together inside a table in a Word document using C#.

To achieve this, you can use the KeepFollow API to keep paragraphs together.

Steps

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 keep paragraphs together inside a table in a Word document.
   C#

using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStream, FormatType.Automatic))
   {
       // Find all tables by EntityType in Word document.
       List<Entity> tables = document.FindAllItemsByProperty(EntityType.Table, null, null);
       for (int i = 0; i < tables.Count; i++)
       {
           WTable table = tables[i] as WTable;
           // Apply "Keep with Next" for all paragraphs inside the table
           SetKeepTogetherForTable(table);
       }
       using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
       {
           document.Save(outputStream, FormatType.Docx);
       }
   }
}

5. Use the following code example to ensure paragraphs stay together.
   C#

private static void SetKeepTogetherForTable(WTable table)
{
   foreach (WTableRow row in table.Rows)
   {
       foreach (WTableCell cell in row.Cells)
       {
           foreach (Entity item in cell.ChildEntities)
           {
               if (item is WTable nestedTable)
               {
                   // Recursively process nested tables
                   SetKeepTogetherForTable(nestedTable);
               }
               else if (item is WParagraph paragraph)
               {
                   // Ensure paragraphs stay together
                   paragraph.ParagraphFormat.KeepFollow = true; // Keep with next
               }
           }
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to keep paragraphs together inside 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 keep paragraphs inside a table in ASP.NET Core Word.

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