How to Align Text in Word with C#/VB.NET?

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Word Text Alignment contains four styles: align left, align center, align right, and justify. All these kinds are frequently used when we set our word text styles. Alignment allows you to make your document pages look neat and tidy.  Thus, text alignment can be indispensable for word users. In this article, you will learned how to align text in Word with C#/VB.NET. Before I show the method to alignment text in word with C#, VB.NET. I suggest use a word component Free Spire.Doc for .NET to help me finish this task. Read on for more information.

 

Programming Environment

In this test, Free Spire.Doc for .NET is introduced into the program. The Spire.Doc.dll file can be referenced by:

 

Method 1: Download Free Spire.Doc for .NET locally, unzip it, and install it. After the installation is complete, find Spire.Doc.dll in the BIN folder under the installation path. Then open the "Solution Explorer" in Visual Studio, right-click "References", "Add Reference", and add a reference to the dll file in the BIN folder of the local path to the program.

 

Method 2: Install via NuGet. It can be installed by the following 2 methods:

 

(1) You can open the "Solution Explorer" in Visual Studio, right-click "References", "Manage NuGet Packages", then search for "Free Spire.Doc", and click "Install". Wait for the program installation to complete.

 

(2) Copy the following content to the PM console installation.

 

Install-Package FreeSpire.Doc -Version 10.8.0

 

Specific Steps:

  • Create a Document instance.
  • Load a sample Word document using Document.LoadFromFile() method.
  • Get a specified section using Document.Sections[] property.
  • Get a specified paragraph using Section.Paragraphs[] property.
  • Get the paragraph format using Paragraph.Format property
  • Set text alignment for the specified paragraph using ParagraphFormat.HorizontalAlignment property.
  • Save the document to another file using Document.SaveToFile() method.
Full Code

【C#】

using Spire.Doc;

using Spire.Doc.Documents;

 

namespace AlignText

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //Create a Document instance

            Document doc = new Document();

 

            //Load a sample Word document

            doc.LoadFromFile("TEST.docx");

 

            //Get the first section

            Section section = doc.Sections[0];

 

            //Get the first paragraph and make it center-aligned

            Paragraph p = section.Paragraphs[0];

            p.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;

 

            //Get the second paragraph and make it left-aligned

            Paragraph p1 = section.Paragraphs[1];

            p1.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;

 

            //Get the third paragraph and make it right-aligned

            Paragraph p2 = section.Paragraphs[2];

            p2.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;

 

            //Get the fourth paragraph and make it justified

            Paragraph p3 = section.Paragraphs[3];

            p3.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Justify;

 

            //Save the document

            doc.SaveToFile("WordAlignment.docx", FileFormat.Docx);

        }

    }

}

 

 

【VB.NET】

Imports Spire.Doc

Imports Spire.Doc.Documents

 

Namespace AlignText

    Friend Class Program

        Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            'Create a Document instance

            Dim doc As Document = New Document()

 

            'Load a sample Word document

            doc.LoadFromFile("TEST.docx")

 

            'Get the first section

            Dim section As Section = doc.Sections(0)

 

            'Get the first paragraph and make it center-aligned

            Dim p As Paragraph = section.Paragraphs(0)

            p.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center

 

            'Get the second paragraph and make it left-aligned

            Dim p1 As Paragraph = section.Paragraphs(1)

            p1.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left

 

            'Get the third paragraph and make it right-aligned

            Dim p2 As Paragraph = section.Paragraphs(2)

            p2.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right

 

            'Get the fourth paragraph and make it justified

            Dim p3 As Paragraph = section.Paragraphs(3)

            p3.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Justify

 

            'Save the document

            doc.SaveToFile("WordAlignment.docx", FileFormat.Docx)

        End Sub

    End Class

End Namespace

Effective Shot


Conclusion:

     In this post, you have learned how to align text in Word in C#/VB.NET. Not only that, we also have other functions, such as, C#/VB.NET: Remove Paragraphs in a Word Document, C#/VB.NET: Remove Empty Lines in Word and so on. Apart from that, if you'd like to learn more, you can visit this link to explore more about for Spire.Doc for .NET.

 

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