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How to set proofing language to text in Word document in .NET Core?

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 set the proofing language to text in the Word document in .NET using C#.

Steps to set the proofing language to text in the Word document in .NET:

  1. Create a new .NET Core console application project.

    Create console application in Visual Studio

  2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.

    Add DocIO NuGet package reference to the project

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  1. Include the following namespaces in the Program.cs file
    C#
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.Office;
  1. Use the following code example to set the proofing language to text in the Word document in .NET.
    C#
    To enable proofing, need to configure the LocaleIDs values.
//Creates a new Word document.
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument())
{
   //Add new section to the document.
   IWSection section = document.AddSection();
   //Add new paragraph to the section.
   IWParagraph paragraph = section.AddParagraph();
   //Add new text to the paragraph.
   IWTextRange text = paragraph.AppendText("Adventure Works Cycles, the fictitious company on which the AdventureWorks sample databases are based, is a large, multinational manufacturing company.");
   //Set language identifier.
   text.CharacterFormat.LocaleIdASCII = (short)LocaleIDs.pt_PT; // Portugal
   //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 set the proofing language to text in the Word document in .NET from the GitHub.

A sample output of the set the proofing language to text in the Word document is shown below:

Output HTML Document

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 set the proofing language to text in the Word document in .NET.

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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