How to perform mail merge in Word document and convert it as PDF in WinForms?

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 perform mail merge in Word document and convert it as PDF using C#.

Steps to perform mail merge in Word document and convert it as PDF:

1. Create a new .NET Framework console application project.
   
   
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocToPDFConverter.WinForms 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.DocToPDFConverter;
using Syncfusion.Pdf;

4. Use the following code example to perform mail merge in Word document and convert it as PDF.
   C#

// Opens the template Word document
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument("../../Data/Template.docx"))
{
   // Defines the merge field names and corresponding values
   string[] fieldNames = new string[] { "EmployeeId", "Name", "Phone", "City" };
   string[] fieldValues = new string[] { "1001", "Peter", "+122-2222222", "London" };
   // Performs the mail merge operation
   document.MailMerge.Execute(fieldNames, fieldValues);
   // Converts the merged Word document to PDF
   using (DocToPDFConverter render = new DocToPDFConverter())
   {
       using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = render.ConvertToPDF(document))
       {
           // Saves the PDF document to the specified file path
           using (FileStream docStream1 = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../Result.pdf"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
           {
               pdfDocument.Save(docStream1);
           }
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to perform mail merge in Word document and convert it as PDF 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 perform mail merge in Word document and convert it as PDF in WinForms platforms.

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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