Reading paragraph from a MS Word document using C#

Here I am going to share how we can read paragraphs from a Microsoft Word Documnet using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word DLL.

(1) Add reference of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word DLL into your project
(2) With the help of following class, we can read a specific paragraph of a MS Word Document.

   class WordDocReader

    {

        //To read paragraph contents of a Word document using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word DLL

        public  string ReadFileContent(string path, int paraGraphNum)

        {

            int i = 0;

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass wordApp = new ApplicationClass();

            object file = path;

            object nullobj = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc = wordApp.Documents.Open

                                                    (ref file, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

                                                    ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

                                                    ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj,

                                                    ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Paragraphs DocPar = doc.Paragraphs;

            // Count number of paragraphs in the file

            long parCount = DocPar.Count;

            // Step through the paragraphs

            while (i < parCount)

            {

                i++;

                if (i == paraGraphNum)

                {

                    sb.Append(DocPar[i].Range.Text);

                    break;

                }

            }

            doc.Close(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

            wordApp.Quit(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

            return(sb.ToString());

        }

    }