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POMerging Documents with Open XML
 

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    <p>I am looking for mail merge alternatives in my vb.net app. I have used the mail merge feature of word, and find that it is quite buggy when dealing with a large volume of documents. I am looking at alternate methods of generating the merge, and have come across open xml. I think this will probably be the answer I am looking for. I have come to understand that the merge will be entirely code-driven in vb.net. I have started playing around with the following code:</p> <pre><code>Dim wordprocessingDocument As WordprocessingDocument = wordprocessingDocument.Open("C:\Users\JasonB\Documents\test.docx", True) 'for each simplefield (mergefield) For Each field In wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.Descendants(Of SimpleField)() 'get the document instruction values Dim instruction As String() = field.Instruction.Value.Split(splitChar, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries) 'if mergefield If instruction(0).ToLower.Equals("mergefield") Then Dim fieldname As String = instruction(1) For Each fieldtext In field.Descendants(Of Text)() fieldtext.Text = "I AM TESTING" Next End If wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Save() wordprocessingDocument.Dispose() </code></pre> <p>Now this works great and all, but I am realizing that I need to create as many documents as I will have datarows (assuming I use a datatable to handle the data).</p> <p>One suggestion I found was to loop through each datarow, take my document template, save it to a folder and insert the datarow data. This could mean however that I end up with 12,000 documents in a single folder that need to be joined later and converted to pdf.</p> <p>Is there another option? The other thing that stood out to me is to create a new word document, and duplicate over the xml from the template, and then replace the values. I dont know however if there is a "simpler" way of doing this, thanks. </p>
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