How to: Select Text Programmatically

• Nov 16, 2018

Use the Document.Selection property to select a text. The following code snippet illustrates how you can select a range of 69 positions starting from the position 216 in the document:

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/word-processing-document-api-examples-t418535

RangeActions.cs

Document document = server.Document;
document.LoadDocument("Documents\\Grimm.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml);
DocumentPosition myStart = document.CreatePosition(69);
DocumentRange myRange = document.CreateRange(myStart, 216);
document.Selection = myRange;

RangeActions.vb

Dim document As Document = server.Document
document.LoadDocument("Documents\Grimm.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml)
Dim myStart As DocumentPosition = document.CreatePosition(69)
Dim myRange As DocumentRange = document.CreateRange(myStart, 216)
document.Selection = myRange