start another Word template

Question

I am building an add-in application in VSTO for MS Word 2016.

In my project I have multiple Word templates (dotx). I am searching for the code to create a Word document based on one of the templates in the solution.

Hope you can help me.

Thanks in advance.

Jim de la Combe

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Jim de la Combe freelance VBA developer

Answer 1

Hello Jim,

Documents.Add(Template,NewTemplate,DocumentType,Visible)

Specific the first Template argument to create a new document based on specific document.

Here is the example.

        Dim wdApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application
        Dim dotxPath As String = "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\TestFolder\Test.dotx"
        wdApp.Documents.Add(dotxPath)

Best Regards,

Terry

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Answer 2

Hi Terry,

first of all thanks for your quick reply.

What I see in your example code is the hard-coded location of the template ("C:\Users\admin\Desktop\TestFolder\Test.dotx"). 

But my question was how to open a template that is already in my VSTO project (VSS solution)?

That is what I am looking for.

Thanks in advance

Jim

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Jim de la Combe freelance VBA developer

Answer 3

Hello VBAjim,

It seems that you want to get relative path string instead of absolute path string in C#.

Please try to check if below threads helpful.

How to get relative path of a file in visual studio?

How to get relative path from absolute path

Best Regards,

Terry

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