ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent not working

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All logic and prior posts tell me this code should work, but I’ve spent the last 2 days trying and it doesn’t. Please help.

I’m opening an existing Word document with nothing but a header and footer and I need to write the contents of a datatable to the document. Everything works, except it does not respond to the formatting commands I’m sending – font changes and indenting.

I’m using the evaluation copy. Here is a snippet of my code.


Dim doc As Document = New Document(gAppPath + “\mydoc.doc”)

Dim docbuild As New DocumentBuilder(doc)

strFile = “textfl” & gUserID & “.doc”

docbuild.ParagraphFormat.ClearFormatting()

docbuild.Font.Size = 8

docbuild.Font.Name = “Arial”

Dim mcounter As Integer

For mcounter = 0 To max - 1

If InStr(“6,7,8,9”, Trim(dtPrint.Rows(mcounter).Item(“Number”).ToString)) > 0 Then

docbuild.ParagraphFormat.ClearFormatting()

docbuild.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 100

End If

docbuild.Write(dtPrint.Rows(mcounter).Item(“PARAGRAPH”).ToString)

docbuild.ParagraphFormat.ClearFormatting()

Next

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If I understand correctly what result you need to achieve, simply rewrite your code as follows:






Dim doc As Document = New Document(gAppPath + "\\mydoc.doc")


Dim docbuild As New DocumentBuilder(doc)


strFile = "textfl" & gUserID & ".doc"


docbuild.Font.Size = 8


docbuild.Font.Name = "Arial"


Dim mcounter As Integer


For mcounter = 0 To max - 1


If InStr("6,7,8,9", Trim(dtPrint.Rows(mcounter).Item("Number").ToString)) > 0 Then


   docbuild.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 100


Else


   docbuild.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 0


End If


docbuild.Write(dtPrint.Rows(mcounter).Item("PARAGRAPH").ToString)


docbuild.InsertParagraph()


Next



 		

 

 

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              

              


              
                  
                  
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It’s not working.  I went so far as to alter your DocumentBuilderdemo.  I worked on the section that prints "This fragment demonstrates use of paragraph formatting to specify…"

I commented out the paragraphcenter line, rebuilt the project and ran the demo.  It does not indent.  Try it.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              

              


              
                  
                  
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Please make sure that you use the latest version of Aspose.Word. I have done exactly as you describe and it works just perfectly. Paragraph containing “This fragment demonstrates use of paragraph formatting…” is still indented 2 inches from the left.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              

              


              
                  
                  
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Everything is up to date.  I had someone else try it and she received the same results I did.  When I save it as a Word document the formatting is removed.  When I save it as a PDF, it works.

If it matters we use Word 2000 SP3.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              

              


              
                  
                  
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Okay, please check back in 2-3 days.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              

              


              
                  
                  
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Fixed in Aspose.Word 2.2.4, for more info please see Aspose.Words for .NET|Documentation