Opening Word documents

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi,
I am using Aspose.Words assembly in .NET to manage Word documents. Can I open an existing word document? I see a Save() method on Document class that saves the document, but I do not see any method to Open the document. Can I open a document that is stored in MemoryStream object without first saving it to disk?
Thanks,
Mahendra

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Dear Mahendra,

Thank you for your question.
Using Aspose.Words you can open an existing document by simple way:
from a memory stream:

// Open the stream. Read only access is enough for Aspose.Words to load a document.
Stream stream = File.OpenRead(MyDir + "Document.doc");
// Load the entire document into memory.
Document doc = new Document(stream);
// You can close the stream now, it is no longer needed because the document is in memory.
stream.Close();

or direct from existing file:

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "Document.doc");

For more information please refer to: https://reference.aspose.com/words/net/aspose.words/document/

Hope this helps.

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Thanks for your reply. What I meant was, can I open an existing word doc file that is saved on the disk in MS word software that is installed on the machine and display it to the user?

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Hi There,
Thanks for your inquiry.
Sure, you can use the Process.Start method as shown below. This will open the document in the default viewer, which should be MS Word.

// Open file in MS Word
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName);

Thanks,