Opening Word (.docx) files on a Windows Form C#

Question

I\'m trying to make my program have the ability to display a Microsoft Word file on a form but not having any luck in doing so. I want to be able to open the file and displa

Answer 1

You need a DOCX viewer control. My company recently gave away our multi-format WinForms viewer control as a free product - XtremeDocumentStudio .NET Free. It can display DOCX and is available on NuGet. It does not require a Web Browser control for embedding an online viewer or Word software installed locally. http://www.nuget.org/packages/XtremeDocumentStudio.NETFree/

Answer 2

There are some good links that might help you. First, you will find a closely related or similar question here And in that conversation someone posted the following link which is about how to build a user control for displaying Word documents in a webbrowser control.

I also found another article here about how to integrate Excel in a Windows Form application using WebBrowser. But Excel is used as an example and you may be able to adapt it to Word.