This repository contains examples that illustrates how to create, edit, format, and delete tables in Word documents programmatically in C# and VB.NET using Syncfusion .NET Word library (Essential DocIO) without Microsoft Word or Office interop dependencies.

You can create, edit, and format simple and nested tables in a Word document. Polish the appearance of tables by applying table styles and conditional formats.

The Syncfusion Word library (Essential DocIO) provides comprehensive APIs to create, edit, format, and delete both simple and nested tables in Word documents programmatically in C# and VB.NET. It allows you to customize look of the tables by merging cells, adding or deleting columns or rows, or applying borders, enabling or disabling header rows to repeat on each page or row to break across pages. It generates professional reports with tabular data faster in a batch process without Microsoft Word or Office interop dependencies. The generated reports can be saved as a Word document, PDF, image, HTML, and more.

• Apply built-in table style in C# - Apply built-in table style to a table in Word document.
• Modify an existing table style in C# - Access an existing table style from a Word document and modify its properties.
• Create new custom table style in C# - Create new custom table style and apply to a table in Word document.
• Copy table styles in C# - Copy table styles from one Word document to another.

Built-in table style

Custom table style

The Syncfusion DocIO is a .NET Word library allows you to add advanced Word document processing functionalities to any .NET application and does not require Microsoft Word application to be installed in the machine. It is a non-UI component that provides a full-fledged document instance model similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries to iterate with the document elements explicitly and perform necessary manipulation.

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 documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly, the PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

• Microsoft Word 97-2003
• Microsoft Word 2007
• Microsoft Word 2010
• Microsoft Word 2013
• Microsoft Word 2016
• Microsoft Word 2019
• Microsoft 365

• Creates, reads, and edits popular text file formats like DOC, DOT, DOCM, DOTM, DOCX, DOTX, HTML, RTF, TXT, and XML (WordML).
• Converts Word documents also to PDF, Image, and ODT files.

• Download this project to a location in your disk.
• Open the solution file using Visual Studio.
• Rebuild the solution to install the required NuGet packages.
• Run the application.

• Product page: Syncfusion Word Framework
• Documentation: Tables in Word document using Syncfusion Word library
• GitHub Examples: Syncfusion Word library examples
• Online demo: Syncfusion Word library - Online demos

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