How to copy rows from one table to another while preserving formatting 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 copy rows from one table to another while preserving formatting in a Word document using C#.

To achieve this, the sample clones a specific row from the source table and inserts it into the target table, either at a specific position using the Insert() method with an index or as the last using the Add() method while preserving formatting.

Steps to copy rows from one table to another while preserving formatting 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 the Program.cs file.
   C#

using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO; 

4. Use the following code example to copy rows from one table to another while preserving formatting in a Word document.
   C#

// Load the Word document from the specified path.
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx")))
{
    // Access the first table in the last section of the document (source table).
    WTable sourceTable = (WTable)document.LastSection.Tables[0];

    // Access the second table in the last section of the document (target table).
    WTable targetTable = (WTable)document.LastSection.Tables[1];

    // Clone the first row from the source table and add it to the target table as first row.
    targetTable.Rows.Insert(0, sourceTable.Rows[0].Clone());

    // Save the modified document to the specified output path in DOCX format.
    document.Save(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../../Output/Result.docx"), FormatType.Docx);
}

You can download a complete working sample to copy rows from one table to another while preserving formatting in a Word document from GitHub.

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Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to copy rows from one table to another while preserving formatting in a Word document in a .NET Core Word document.

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