Get document text - including fields

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

How can I get all the text from a document, with the fields showing up as in the original document.

(ex: “{MACROBUTTON NoMacro F11}”)

2

Hi
Thanks for your request. Please try using the following simple code as example:

var doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.doc");
var showFieldCode = new ShowFieldCode();
doc.Accept(showFieldCode);
Console.WriteLine(doc.ToTxt());

class ShowFieldCode: DocumentVisitor
{
    public override VisitorAction VisitFieldStart(Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldStart fieldStart)
    {
        if (fieldStart.FieldType == Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldType.FieldMacroButton)
            fieldStart.Remove();
        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }
    public override VisitorAction VisitFieldSeparator(Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldSeparator fieldSeparator)
    {
        if (fieldSeparator.FieldType == Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldType.FieldMacroButton)
            fieldSeparator.Remove();
        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }
    public override VisitorAction VisitFieldEnd(Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldEnd fieldEnd)
    {
        if (fieldEnd.FieldType == Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldType.FieldMacroButton)
            fieldEnd.Remove();
        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }
}

Hope this helps.
Best regards,

3

Or you can try retrieving the field code using the following way:

var doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.doc");
Node[] nodes = doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.FieldStart, true).ToArray();
foreach (FieldStart node in nodes)
{
    Console.WriteLine(GetFieldCode(node));
}

private static string GetFieldCode(Aspose.Words.Fields.FieldStart fieldStart)
{
    var builder = new StringBuilder();
    for (Node node = fieldStart; node != null && node.NodeType != NodeType.FieldSeparator && node.NodeType != NodeType.FieldEnd; node = node.NextPreOrder(node.Document))
    {
        // Use the text only of Run nodes to avoid duplication.
        if (node.NodeType == NodeType.Run)
            builder.Append(node.GetText());
    }
    return builder.ToString();
}

Best regards,

4

Thank you very much. This looks like exactly what I’m looking for. I will tweak it a bit to do exactly what I need.