Aspose.Words Namespace

The Aspose.Words namespace provides classes for generating, converting, modifying, rendering and printing Microsoft Word documents without utilizing Microsoft Word.

Aspose.Words is written completely in C#, CLS compliant and contains only safe managed code. Microsoft Word is not required in order to use Aspose.Words.

The classes in the Aspose.Words namespace borrow best practices from two well-known frameworks: Microsoft Word Automation and System.Xml. A document in Aspose.Words is represented by a tree of nodes, much like in XML DOM. Where possible, class, method and property names match those found in Microsoft Word Automation.

The main classes in this namespace are:

Document is the main class of the object model that represents a Microsoft Word document.
DocumentBuilder provides an easy way to insert content and formatting into a document.
Node is the base class for all nodes in the document.
CompositeNode is the base class for all nodes of the document that can contain other nodes, for example Paragraph, Section and Table and .

Classes

	Class	Description
	AbsolutePositionTab	An absolute position tab is a character which is used to advance the position on the current line of text when displaying this WordprocessingML content.
	Body	Represents a container for the main text of a section.
	Bookmark	Represents a single bookmark.
	BookmarkCollection	A collection of Bookmark objects that represent the bookmarks in the specified range.
	BookmarkEnd	Represents an end of a bookmark in a Word document.
	BookmarkStart	Represents a start of a bookmark in a Word document.
	Border	Represents a border of an object.
	BorderCollection	A collection of Border objects.
	BuildVersionInfo	Provides information about the current product name and version.
	CleanupOptions	Allows to specify options for document cleaning.
	ComHelper	Provides methods for COM clients to load a document into Aspose.Words.
	Comment	Represents a container for text of a comment.
	CommentCollection	Provides typed access to a collection of Comment nodes.
	CommentRangeEnd	Denotes the end of a region of text that has a comment associated with it.
	CommentRangeStart	Denotes the start of a region of text that has a comment associated with it.
	CompositeNode	Base class for nodes that can contain other nodes.
	ConditionalStyle	Represents special formatting applied to some area of a table with assigned table style.
	ConditionalStyleCollection	Represents a collection of ConditionalStyle objects.
	ControlChar	Control characters often encountered in documents.
	ConvertUtil	Provides helper functions to convert between various measurement units.
	Document	Represents a Word document.
	DocumentBase	Provides the abstract base class for a main document and a glossary document of a Word document.
	DocumentBuilder	Provides methods to insert text, images and other content, specify font, paragraph and section formatting.
	DocumentReaderPluginLoadException	Thrown during document load, when the plugin required for reading the document format cannot be loaded.
	DocumentVisitor	Base class for custom document visitors.
	EditableRange	Represents a single editable range.
	EditableRangeEnd	Represents an end of an editable range in a Word document.
	EditableRangeStart	Represents a start of an editable range in a Word document.
	FileCorruptedException	Thrown during document load, when the document appears to be corrupted and impossible to load.
	FileFormatInfo	Contains data returned by FileFormatUtil document format detection methods.
	FileFormatUtil	Provides utility methods for working with file formats, such as detecting file format or converting file extensions to/from file format enums.
	Font	Contains font attributes (font name, font size, color, and so on) for an object.
	FrameFormat	Represents frame related formatting for a paragraph.
	HeaderFooter	Represents a container for the header or footer text of a section.
	HeaderFooterCollection	Provides typed access to HeaderFooter nodes of a Section.
	Hyphenation	Provides methods for working with hyphenation dictionaries. These dictionaries prescribe where words of a specific language can be hyphenated.
	ImageWatermarkOptions	Contains options that can be specified when adding a watermark with image.
	ImportFormatOptions	Allows to specify various import options to format output.
	IncorrectPasswordException	Thrown if a document is encrypted with a password and the password specified when opening the document is incorrect or missing.
	Inline	Base class for inline-level nodes that can have character formatting associated with them, but cannot have child nodes of their own.
	InlineStory	Base class for inline-level nodes that can contain paragraphs and tables.
	InternableComplexAttr	Base class for internable complex attribute. Internable complex attribute should notify parent collection when going to be changed.
	InterruptionToken	Obsolete. This class is obsolete. Use IPageLayoutCallback instead. Provides method to manually interrupt Aspose.Words while page layout model is built.
	License	Provides methods to license the component.
	Metered	Provides methods to set metered key.
	Node	Base class for all nodes of a Word document.
	NodeChangingArgs	Provides data for methods of the INodeChangingCallback interface.
	NodeCollection	Represents a collection of nodes of a specific type.
	NodeImporter	Allows to efficiently perform repeated import of nodes from one document to another.
	NodeList	Represents a collection of nodes matching an XPath query executed using the SelectNodes(String) method.
	PageSetup	Represents the page setup properties of a section.
	Paragraph	Represents a paragraph of text.
	ParagraphCollection	Provides typed access to a collection of Paragraph nodes.
	ParagraphFormat	Represents all the formatting for a paragraph.
	PlainTextDocument	Allows to extract plain-text representation of the document's content.
	Range	Represents a contiguous area in a document.
	Revision	Represents a revision (tracked change) in a document node or style. Use RevisionType to check the type of this revision.
	RevisionCollection	A collection of Revision objects that represent revisions in the document.
	RevisionGroup	Represents a group of sequential Revision objects.
	RevisionGroupCollection	A collection of RevisionGroup objects that represent revision groups in the document.
	Run	Represents a run of characters with the same font formatting.
	RunCollection	Provides typed access to a collection of Run nodes.
	Section	Represents a single section in a document.
	SectionCollection	A collection of Section objects in the document.
	Shading	Contains shading attributes for an object.
	SignatureLineOptions	Allows to specify options for signature line being inserted. Used in DocumentBuilder.
	SpecialChar	Base class for special characters in the document.
	Story	Base class for elements that contain block-level nodes Paragraph and Table.
	Style	Represents a single built-in or user-defined style.
	StyleCollection	A collection of Style objects that represent both the built-in and user-defined styles in a document.
	SubDocument	Represents a SubDocument - which is a reference to an externally stored document.
	TableStyle	Represents a table style.
	TabStop	Represents a single custom tab stop. The TabStop object is a member of the TabStopCollection collection.
	TabStopCollection	A collection of TabStop objects that represent custom tabs for a paragraph or a style.
	TextColumn	Represents a single text column. TextColumn is a member of the TextColumnCollection collection. The TextColumns collection includes all the columns in a section of a document.
	TextColumnCollection	A collection of TextColumn objects that represent all the columns of text in a section of a document.
	TextWatermarkOptions	Contains options that can be specified when adding a watermark with text.
	UnsupportedFileFormatException	Thrown during document load, when the document format is not recognized or not supported by Aspose.Words.
	VariableCollection	A collection of document variables.
	WarningInfo	Contains information about a warning that Aspose.Words issued during document loading or saving.
	WarningInfoCollection	Represents a typed collection of WarningInfo objects.
	Watermark	Represents class to work with document watermark.

Interfaces

	Interface	Description
	IDocumentReaderPlugin	Defines an interface for external reader plugins that can read a file into a document.
	IHyphenationCallback	Implemented by classes which can register hyphenation dictionaries.
	INodeChangingCallback	Implement this interface if you want to receive notifications when nodes are inserted or removed in the document.
	IWarningCallback	Implement this interface if you want to have your own custom method called to capture loss of fidelity warnings that can occur during document loading or saving.

Enumerations

	Enumeration	Description
	BorderType	Specifies sides of a border.
	BreakType	Specifies type of a break inside a document.
	CalendarType	Specifies the type of a calendar.
	ChapterPageSeparator	Defines the separator character that appears between the chapter and page number.
	ConditionalStyleType	Represents possible table areas to which conditional formatting may be defined in a table style.
	ContentDisposition	Enumerates different ways of presenting the document at the client browser.
	DropCapPosition	Specifies the position for a drop cap text.
	EditorType	Specifies the set of possible aliases (or editing groups) which can be used as aliases to determine if the current user shall be allowed to edit a single range defined by an editable range within a document.
	EmphasisMark	Specifies possible types of emphasis mark.
	HeaderFooterType	Identifies the type of header or footer found in a Word file.
	HeightRule	Specifies the rule for determining the height of an object.
	HtmlInsertOptions	Specifies options for the InsertHtml(String, HtmlInsertOptions) method.
	ImportFormatMode	Specifies how formatting is merged when importing content from another document.
	LineNumberRestartMode	Determines when automatic line numbering restarts.
	LineSpacingRule	Specifies line spacing values for a paragraph.
	LineStyle	Specifies line style of a Border.
	LoadFormat	Indicates the format of the document that is to be loaded.
	MeasurementUnits	Specifies the unit of measurement.
	NodeChangingAction	Specifies the type of node change.
	NodeType	Specifies the type of a Word document node.
	NumberStyle	Specifies the number style for a list, footnotes and endnotes, page numbers.
	Orientation	Specifies page orientation.
	OutlineLevel	Specifies the outline level of a paragraph in the document.
	PageBorderAppliesTo	Specifies which pages the page border is printed on.
	PageBorderDistanceFrom	Specifies the positioning of the page border relative to the page margin.
	PageVerticalAlignment	Specifies vertical justification of text on each page.
	PaperSize	Specifies paper size.
	ParagraphAlignment	Specifies text alignment in a paragraph.
	ProtectionType	Protection type for a document.
	RevisionsView	Allows to specify whether to work with the original or revised version of a document.
	RevisionType	Specifies the type of change being tracked in Revision.
	SaveFormat	Indicates the format in which the document is saved.
	SectionLayoutMode	Specifies the layout mode for a section allowing to define the document grid behavior.
	SectionStart	The type of break at the beginning of the section.
	StoryType	Text of a Word document is stored in stories. StoryType identifies a story.
	StyleIdentifier	Locale independent style identifier.
	StyleType	Represents type of the style.
	TabAlignment	Specifies the alignment/type of a tab stop.
	TabLeader	Specifies the type of the leader line displayed under the tab character.
	TextDmlEffect	Dml text effect for text runs.
	TextEffect	Animation effect for text runs.
	TextOrientation	Specifies orientation of text on a page, in a table cell or a text frame.
	TextureIndex	Specifies shading texture.
	Underline	Indicates type of the underline applied to a font.
	VisitorAction	Allows the visitor to control the enumeration of nodes.
	WarningSource	Specifies the module that produces a warning during document loading or saving.
	WarningType	Specifies the type of a warning that is issued by Aspose.Words during document loading or saving.
	WatermarkLayout	Defines layout of the watermark relative to the watermark center.
	WatermarkType	Specifies the watermark type.