DocX – A short tutorial for beginners HelloWorld()

Beginning your coding story with DocX is very easy and intuitive even for beginners. Below you can find a quick overview on how to create a simple HelloWorld document with use of DocX. In a series of screenshots, followed by code example you can easily see how easy it is to create a simple .DOCX document.

As you can see besides usings we have added new method called HelloWorld() and added HelloWorld(); inside Main() method to execute it. While at this point you could simply run the program you should also notice line 22 where the path for new file is defined. If you've not created docs folder before in your projects folder you would get an error. So while you can always do it manually you can also simply add a new method called Setup() and execute it before running HelloWorld() method. This method creates new docs directory if it doesn't exists yet.

Unfortunately due to use of another library we need to add additional using on top as well. Our code after little changes will look like this.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Novacode;

namespace DocX_Test_Project
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Setup();
            HelloWorld();
        }
        static void HelloWorld()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("tHelloWorld()");

            // Create a new document.
            using (DocX document = DocX.Create(@"docsHello World.docx"))
            {
                // Insert a Paragraph into this document.
                Paragraph p = document.InsertParagraph();

                // Append some text and add formatting.
                p.Append("Hello World!^011Hello World!")
                .Font(new FontFamily("Times New Roman"))
                .FontSize(32)
                .Color(Color.Blue)
                .Bold();

                // Save this document to disk.
                document.Save();
                Console.WriteLine("tCreated: docs\Hello World.docxn");
            }
        }
        private static void Setup()
        {
            if (!Directory.Exists("docs"))
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory("docs");
            }
        }
    }
}