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Find the Position of text in a Word Document

RSHERRY — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:35:00 GMT

Hi All

I am currently working with Word documents , I have to iterate through a large volume of word documents and check to see if any of them require a signature.

I look for the text "Yours Sincerely" , and then i will add a text box on the line below and this text box will contain the signature.

I have successfully added the signature but I am struggling to determine the position of the text box.

Is there a way of finding the X and Y values of text in a Word document , so that i can add a set value to it and place the text box below the text "Yours Sincerely".

There will only be one Signature per document.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Rachael

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Rachael Sherry
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RE: Find the Position of text in a Word Document

harish.mogulluri — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:03:00 GMT

Hi Rachel,

I have done in the past in C# using code stage but unfortunatley I dont have that code any more.

But below threads might help to

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10165833/get-text-position-in-microsoft-word-from-vba-or-c-sharp-interop
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/647674/find-text-position-in-word-document-in-c

I would suggest to check the current MS word object in digital exchange and check whether using word count or line count you can calculate the coordinates of a text.

https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/ms-word-vbo

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