Hidden Rows

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I am converting Excel(One worksheet) to html and then inserting this html into word(using builder.inserthtml) in order to maintain all fonts/styles/colors. The excel sheet has some hidden rows, that I would like to embed inside the word document (not visibly), but they should appear in Design Mode in the word document, or Show/Hiding hidden text . When I set ExportActiveWorksheetOnly = true (when converting excel to html in HTMLSaveoptions) , I get the output in Word (after insertion) to not display Hidden rows - even in design mode. if I set it to false, they do appear (when in design mode) however, it also has the rest of the workbook which I do not want(I only want the one worksheet i selected).

I tried unhiding all rows in excel. then doing the conversion, and then trying to hide the rows again in word using run.font.hidden , however, this only hides the text and not the borders. If I clear the borders, then they will deleted from the document and will not appear when in Design Mode.

Basically to sum it up - I need to Convert Excel sheet to html then insert to Word doc. The excel sheet contains some hidden rows that I need to be able to view in Design Mode(in my word document). But not see them visibly in Word - without design mode. How can I accomplish this?

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@prodigy234 In DOCX table row is marked as hidden as the following :

<w:trPr>
    <w:hidden/>
</w:trPr>

Unfortunately, there is no public API to set this property.

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do you know if there is potentially another way to accomplish this? either hiding a row in word or inserting a hidden row into word from html(height=0) - to view in design mode.

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I found a solution. I first unhide all the excel rows in the excel sheet(store their row indices in a list - hiddenRows ). Convert to html. insert into word. Once in word doc, I do this
Access the table

Table table = (Table)doc.GetChild(NodeType.Table, tableNum, true);

Loop through rows, set these properties (if row # is in list of hiddenRows from excel)

row.RowFormat.Height = 0;
row.RowFormat.HeightRule = HeightRule.Exactly;
row.RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages = false;

loop through cells, set these properties

cell.CellFormat.Borders.Top.LineWidth = 0;
cell.CellFormat.Borders.Left.LineWidth = 0;
cell.CellFormat.Borders.Bottom.LineWidth = 0;
cell.CellFormat.Borders.Right.LineWidth = 0;

then loop through all runs in paragraph node, set font to hidden

 foreach (Paragraph paragraph in cell.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Paragraph, true))
 {
     foreach (Run run in paragraph.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Run, true))
     {
         run.Font.Hidden = true;
     }
 }
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@prodigy234 It is perfect that you managed to achieve what you need. I tested with a simple HTML and the following HTML produces hidden row:

<html>
<body>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>First</td>
            <td>First</td>
            <td>First</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><span style="display:none">Second</span></td>
            <td><span style="display:none">Second</span></td>
            <td><span style="display:none">Second</span></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Third</td>
            <td>Third</td>
            <td>Third</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>