Inserting newlines in Word using OpenXML

Question

I am using openxml WordProcessingDocument to open a Word template and replace placeholder x1 with a string. This works fine unless I need the string to contain a newline.

Answer 1

Here's a C# function that will take a string, split it on line breaks and render it in OpenXML. To use, instantiate a Run and pass it into the function with a string.

void parseTextForOpenXML( Run run, string textualData )
{
    string[ ] newLineArray = { Environment.NewLine };
    string[ ] textArray = textualData.Split( newLineArray, StringSplitOptions.None );

    bool first = true;

    foreach ( string line in textArray )
    {
        if ( ! first )
        {
            run.Append( new Break( ) );
        }

        first = false;

        Text txt = new Text( );
        txt.Text = line;
        run.Append( txt );
    }