How to find and edit a specific shape or chart by name 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 find and edit a specific shape or chart by name in a Word document using C#.

Steps to find and edit a specific shape or chart by name 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 find and edit a specific shape or chart by name in a Word document.
   C#

using (FileStream fileStreamPath = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
{
   //Opens an existing Word document.
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStreamPath, FormatType.Automatic))
   {
       //Find shape by name.
       Shape shape = document.FindItemByProperty(EntityType.AutoShape, "Name", "Adventure Shape") as Shape;
       //Resize the shape.  
       if (shape != null)
       {
           shape.Height = 75;
           shape.Width = 200;
       }
       //Find chart by name.
       WChart chart = document.FindItemByProperty(EntityType.Chart, "Name", "Adventure Chart") as WChart;
       //Set the chart name.  
       if (chart != null)
           chart.ChartTitle = "Column chart";
       //Creates file stream.
       using (FileStream outputFileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
       {
           //Saves the Word document to file stream.
           document.Save(outputFileStream, FormatType.Docx);
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to find and edit a specific shape or chart by name 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 find and edit a specific shape or chart by name in .NET Core Word document.

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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