Getting total page count of a word document

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1

I wanted to count the total number of pages in a word document. What is the best way to do so?

thanks

Chintan Parikh

2

Hi,
Thank you for considering Aspose.
The only way to do this at the moment is using BuiltInDocumentProperties.Pages:

int pageCount = doc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Pages;

However, it might not return the proper value as it just returns the value written by Word which is not updated by Aspose.Word. We will improve this in the future.

3

I tried this, and I’m getting the exception:
‘Aspose.Word.DocumentProperties’ does not contain a definition for ‘Pages’
However I tried:

foreach(DocumentProperty dp in WordDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties)
{
    if(dp.Name == "Number of Pages")
    {
        NumPages = (int)dp.Value;
        return;
    }
}

But, it returns 1 every time on this document (even though it is 4 pages).

4

Please check if you are using the latest version of Aspose.Word.
I’ve tried this kind of code:

string filename = Application.StartupPath + "\\Doc1.doc";
Document doc = new Document(filename);
MessageBox.Show(String.Format("Document has {0} pages", doc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Pages));

and it does not produce any exceptions.
The number of pages returned by BuiltInDocumentProperties.Pages is indeed always 1. We shall check this issue. Thanks for reporting.

5

Number of pages as well as other data returned by BuiltInDocumentProperties are taken from the document as stored by MS Word. Aspose.Word cannot calculate the number of pages.