How to Work With a Document in the Word JavaScript API

We've seen how to manipulate objects across the Excel JavaScript API, but we can also use the Office API in other Office Applications. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use the Word API to manipulate a Word Document.
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[@secretagentx-9908]

So you can only edit word documents with javascript from within word? I can't, for example, create a word file in node and add text and images to it, straight from a node server?

[@vijaysingh-ck1gc]

thanks for showing the demo, can we access native add-ins from custom add-in, for eg. if I want to get a text from document and display under my custom-add in, then If I click on the text, it should open native add-in (navigation search at the left) and put a clicked text under search textfield of native add in, please suggest on this, thank you

[@MrMolverat]

Hello I have tried using a text input on the html and use the value inside the script using
let inputData = document.getElementById("inputId").nodeValue; *.innertText , etc, an nothing is able to get the info written.
Could you help?

[@samyukthakota3853]

How to get the strikeThrough Property value from the whole document present in font class object.It might be "n" number of pages in the document.

[@emant6896]

Thanks a lot.

[@SigmaCoding]

Most welcome!

[@abhijitkhillari9334]

Hi Can we add bullets using office js in word

[@flutterflowexpert]

Is it possible to find and replace word using this API? It will be be great if you can show us a demo.

[@alanl.ambron1749]

Hi, thanks for the video. I currently have a paragraph as a range. I'm am trying modify a specific character in that paragraph at a specific location.

[@SigmaCoding]

Have you investigated the search option?
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/word/search-option-guidance
Might be a good place to start.

[@dangkhanhlinh476]

Hi
Can I use scriptlap in excel and word at the same time ?, I need to read data on excel and switch to word!

[@SigmaCoding]

You should be able to, you would just be loading the add-in separately in each application.

[@MrHectorsm]

Can JavaScript be made interactive (user forms with controls) and connect to databases (Oracle) to retrieve information?

[@SigmaCoding]

Well, you can add controls now doing the whole "populating using a database" is a different story. However, I'm planning to do a content control video for the Word API. I'll try to see if I can add something like that in there.

[@georgerady9706]

Wouldn’t Microsoft steer you towards using Azure or SQL Server?

[@duxingsky]

What the editor in the video ?

[@SigmaCoding]

It's Script Lab, an Office Add-in that is used for exploring the Office API. You can learn more about it here.
*www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/script-lab/*

[@TravelFunRepeat]

Can we read the entire text in one go? My objective is to read text residing inside document not search. Please guide

[@SigmaCoding]

Here is a link with an example: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/word/word.body?view=word-js-preview#text

[@TravelFunRepeat]

@@SigmaCoding This really helped ..!! Thanks a lot

[@jamesmorrison2198]

How do you enable JavaScript in MS Word? I saved a document & when I tried to open it it said "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.". So, How do I enable it?

[@Awaisali-mz2bh]

Is it possible to convert a word doc to pdf using this library?,

[@jaypaltagline4455]

how to get multiple pages index number of content

[@itsjustpaperman]

why do we need to load those properties ?

[@georgerady9706]

Perhaps there’s an answer somewhere else, but I am on a corporate - locked down - Surface build where Office365 is limited to using; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook… and I tried get a Power Automate procedure setup and got blocked by “Flow Checker” requiring a Premium License…
I’m pursuing that…
And I would assume bringing up the Word/Excel API (still don’t see how to do that?) would require the same…
But - would you need addition provisioning - to use the Word/Excel API???

[@RajeevKumar-ns9du]

I have a requirement to open a word document from server in a new browser tab allow user to edit and save the document on browser. Upon saving the word file on server should get updated.

[@athi-enkosifongoqa6459]

have you figured this out yet?

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