Find the first section of a document and insert into another

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I have broken a template into 5 documents. These five documents are each have a paragraph (First Section) in them that I want to extract and add to the main document in a different order without line return. I am using the insertdocument and mail merge methods that were given as examples in the documentation. Each of the these methods keep putting a new line break in before the inserted document. Does anyone have any helpful examples working with sections and documents?
Thanks,
Bryan

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Hi Yuri,
Thanks for your inquiry.
Please see the code below which demonstrates how to append the content of documents at the paragraph level.

public static void AppendDocumentAtParagraphLevel(Document dstDoc, Document srcDoc)
{
    Paragraph lastPara = dstDoc.FirstSection.Body.LastParagraph;
    foreach (Section section in srcDoc.Sections)
    {
        foreach (Node blockNode in section.Body)
        {
            CompositeNode newNode = (CompositeNode)lastPara.Document.ImportNode(blockNode, true, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
            Node insertNode = lastPara.LastChild;
            if (newNode.NodeType == NodeType.Paragraph || newNode.NodeType == NodeType.StructuredDocumentTag || newNode.NodeType == NodeType.CustomXmlMarkup)
            {
                // Use GetChildNodes to find runs that are deeply nested even if the paragraph is wrapped within a SDT or CustomXml markup
                foreach (Node inlineNode in newNode.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Run, true))
                {
                    lastPara.InsertAfter(inlineNode, insertNode);
                    insertNode = inlineNode;
                }
            }
            else if (newNode.NodeType == NodeType.Table)
            {
                lastPara.ParentNode.InsertAfter(newNode, lastPara);
            }
        }
    }
}

If you have any further queries, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,

3

That this works great. I have not tried it yet but will this method keep the formating and spacing of tables that are merged in?

4

Hi Yuri,
Thanks for your inquiry.
Yes it should as the tables are imported as whole nodes. The method itself may take a bit of tweaking depending upon how you want the documents to be appended.
If you run into any issues I will be glad to help you.
Thanks,