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Intro

A fax cover sheet with recipient and sender information, created by WordTemplate.


The template document is a formatted fax cover form with merge fields for every string, bool or int in the code. 

Code

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public class FaxCoverGenerator
  {
 
      private string toName, fromName, company, faxNumber, phoneNumber, subject, comments;
      private int pageCount;
      private bool isUrgent, isForReview, isCommentRequested;
 
      /// <summary>
      /// Build the report with WordTemplate
      /// </summary>
      public void GenerateDocument()
      {
          //Desired values for the cover sheet:
          this.toName = "Jon Smith";
          this.fromName = "Robert Jones";
          this.company = "SoftArtisans";
          this.faxNumber = "(123)-456-7890";
          this.phoneNumber = "(123)-555-5555";
          this.subject = "Sales Report";
          this.comments = "Attached is the sales report.";
          this.isUrgent = true;
          this.isForReview = true;
          this.isCommentRequested = true;
          this.pageCount = 10;
 
          // Form the array of mergefield names. 
          // The elements in this array correspond
          // to the names of the merge fields in the
          // template, and each element's array index
          // should correpond to an element in the value array
         
          string[] arrNames = {"ToName", "FromName", "Company", "FaxNumber", "PhoneNumber",
                                  "Subject", "PageCount", "Comments", "ChkUrgent", "ChkReview", "ChkComment"};
 
          // The value array.  The value of the elements in this
          // array contain info supplied in the web form.
          // These values represent the data that will be dynamically
          // populated in the template file
         
          object[] arrValues = {this.toName, this.fromName, this.company, this.faxNumber, this.phoneNumber,
                                   this.subject, this.pageCount, this.comments,
                                   this.isUrgent?"X":"", this.isForReview?"X":"", this.isCommentRequested?"X":""};
 
 
          // Create the WordTemplate object
          WordTemplate wt = new WordTemplate();
 
          // Open the template document.
          string templatePath = @"..\..\WordTemplateFiles\FaxCoverTemplate.docx";
          wt.Open(templatePath);
 
          // Set the datasource with the name and value arrays defined above
          wt.SetDataSource(arrValues, arrNames);
 
          // Process the template
          wt.Process();
 
          // Save the document
          wt.Save(@"..\..\WordOutputFiles\FaxCover_output.docx");
 
      }

 Downloads

Template:  FaxCoverTemplate.docx

Output:  FaxCover_output.docx

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