Obtain Range text-column number in Word Interop

[Ahmed Bedeer]

Dear All,

I'm working on a project where I need to extract text information from some
word documents. I need to know each character(range)'s page number, line
number and text-column number.

I use Microsoft Office Interop for Word assembly in C#.

I could find the page number, and line number easily using the
range.get_Information() method, but I could not find the information of
text-column number.

Note: I mean the text-column NOT the column number in a table.

and here is a portion of the code:

//
// After the document is opened using app.Documents.Open()
//

foreach (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range range in document.Words)
{
string text = range.Text;

lineNo =
(int)range.get_Information(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdInformation.wdFirstCharacterLineNumber);
pageNo =
(int)range.get_Information(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdInformation.wdActiveEndPageNumber);

float lineY =
(float)range.Characters.Last.get_Information(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdInformation.wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage);
float wordX =
(float)range.get_Information(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdInformation.wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage);

//.. Here I need to know the text-column number of the current range.
//
}

please help,

Thanks in advance

 

[Graham Mayor]

Text column information would seem to be a bit pointless with proportionally
spaced fonts. It is essentially the character count from the start of the
current 'line' to the cursor position + 1. Problem is 'line' is not a
parameter of the current range. What constitutes a 'line' in the document
you are evaluating.
e.g. if each 'line' is a paragraph, you could move the start of the range
from the cursor position to the start of the paragraph and measure the
length of the range. The following is a vba equivalent of that

Dim oRng As Range
Dim iCol As Integer
Set oRng = Selection.Range
oRng.Start = oRng.Paragraphs(1).Range.Start
iCol = Len(oRng) + 1


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[Ahmed Bedeer]

Hi Graham,

Thank you very much for your reply. But, I'm afraid I wasn't as clear in my
question. The information that I'm seeking is text column number, not the
current column number in the line that's known by the character index from
the start of the line.

Every page in the documents I'm processing contains two text-columns, that's
considered a page-setup / page-layout . so I need to know if a range is in
the right or left page column.

So, please help me that.

Best Regards,

Ahmed Bedeer.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Ahmed,

As far as I know, Word doesn't make the text column available
directly. However, your code has already obtained the horizontal
position (as the variable wordX). All you need to do now is determine
whether that is less than or greater than half of the page width. Both
measurements must be in the same units (probably points).

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Ahmed Bedeer]

Hi Jay,

Yes, I've already tried that using the wordX, but I needed something direct
and more accurate as getting wordX sometimes leads to a Microsoft Word 2002
crash.

Anyway, Thank you very much.

Regards,

Ahmed.