Forgive me I'm lost and bewildered!


I have a document with several Plain Text Content Controls. So far, I can enumerate the SdtElements in the document , find all the SdtBlocks of interest and replace the text as needed ok.
Next though, I have one field in RichText format that I can retrieve from a database as a string and now need to insert this into the document. I've set up a Rich Text Content Control in the document but how do I set/replace this with the rich text string and retain the proper formatting?
Just to make me more confused, when I open the document with the "Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit" it shows all the Content Controls as expected and properly identifies the one as Rich Text type. When, however, I open the document using the "Open XML SDK 2.0 Productivity Tool" it shows the rich text control as a plain simple SdtBlock that appears completely indistinguishable from the plain text content controls and the reflected code seems identical?
How then to set the RichText string in the document?

Hi Testor,

With a Rich Text Content Control, you can paste formatted text into it, or format its content after populating it.

As for identifying the type, there seems to be a bug in the data returned - the same happens with vba.

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Actually, the bug seems transient. I've just re-tested with vba and am getting the correct values. Maybe re-starting Word or rebooting your system will fix the issue.

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Thanks for the reply but it doesn't really answer the question.

I'm sure a Word user can paste rich text into a document (content control or not!). My problem, though, is I have a rich text string I need to embed in a document on a back end service using nothing more than .NET's DocumentFormat.OpenXml assembly and I still don't have a clue how to do that.

Any guidance would be greately appreciated.

I haven't worked with OpenXml, so I can't advise directly. However, if you save two copies of a document, one with an empty Rich Text CC and one with the same CC filled, the resulting XML code should give you an idea of what's required.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]