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    copied!<p>So, first off here's my code to open the dotx and create a new docx copy (of which the copy is then modified). Cut for brevity, but essentially takes 3 params a data table (to make it usable by legacy systems), the UNC path as a string to a template and a UNC path as a string to the output document:</p> <pre><code>using (WordprocessingDocument docGenerated = WordprocessingDocument.Open(outputPath, true)) { docGenerated.ChangeDocumentType(WordprocessingDocumentType.Document); foreach (SimpleField field in docGenerated.MainDocumentPart.Document.Descendants&lt;SimpleField&gt;()) { string mergeFieldName = GetFieldName(field).Trim(); DataRow[] dr = dtSchema.Select("FieldName = '" + mergeFieldName + "'"); if (dr.Length &gt; 0) { string runProperties = string.Empty; foreach (RunProperties property in field.Descendants&lt;RunProperties&gt;()) { runProperties = property.OuterXml; break; } Run run = new Run(); run.Append(new RunProperties(runProperties)); run.Append(new Text(dr[0]["FieldDataValue"].ToString())); field.Parent.ReplaceChild&lt;SimpleField&gt;(run, field); } } docGenerated.MainDocumentPart.Document.Save(); } </code></pre> <p>What I did initially was take a .dot template and re-save it as a .dotx and crossed my fingers, didn't work. So instead I tried deleting all merge fields in the .dotx and adding them again. This worked - but it would only find one merge field (as a SimpleField), specifically the last one added before saving the .dotx. Looking further at the template using the open XML productivity tool I can see that all other merge fields are of type w:instrText which is why they're being ignored.</p> <p>I'm literally just starting out with OpenXML as we're looking to replace our current office automation with it so I know very little at this point. Could someone please instruct me a bit further or point me to a good resource? I've Google'd around a bit but I can't find my specific problem. I am trying to put off reading through the whole SDK documentation (I know, I know!) as I need to get a solution put together quickly so am focusing on a single task which is to take our existing .dot templates, convert them to .dotx and just replace merge fields with data to derive a .docx.</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
 

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