export Textblock to word & styling

[reminem]

Hello everyone

I can export texblock.text and label.text to word. But there is no styling found back in the word document
For example the background-color won't export. I use this as a conformation document.
How can you also export the style of the form and can you export a table (make a table when the form is exported to word? in thios case 1 row 2 columns)

code for export works fine

//Save to document
                String strtxt = textBox3.Text + label5.Text;
                TextWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\Users\filename");
                sw.WriteLine(strtxt);
                sw.Close();

Thanks everyone

[tinstaafl]

If you use a RichTextBox you can export the text as an .rtf which will include any format styling you've done, which can then be read by Word.

[reminem]

@tinstaafl and others
Thanks, but when I make the richtext box background color blue
and add an textbox in the richtexbox..still the style won't be export to word of wordpad

Is this because it isn't saved as a rtf file?
Or?

Thanks

[tinstaafl]

Most likely. The RichTextBox has a method to save the contents to rtf(richTextBox1.SaveFile("myFile.rtf");)

[reminem]

@all,

It's impossible to insert a textbox.text into a richtextbox. Or am I doing something wrong?

The idea is that there are some textboxes in the richtextbox where a user can insert some valuables and automaticaly count the valuables and save them in a txt file with styling. Or is there an other way?

Saving the richtextbox isn't a problem..!

Thanks

[tinstaafl]

The RichTextBox can accept a users input. Why do you want to insert a TextBox into thte RichTextBox?

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Hello Tinstaafl,

This is a quick form I build for the example. When saving, the file is 0 kb

Why? I would like to make a winform, but also style this, so its printable and looks nice.

When I export the textblock.Text to a file I can't style them.

Thanks

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;


namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (textBox1.Text == String.Empty || textBox2.Text == String.Empty || textBox6.Text == String.Empty)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Please insert a value (label 1 and 2)");
            }
            else
            {

                int a = Convert.ToInt32(textBox1.Text);
                int b = Convert.ToInt32(textBox2.Text);

                int c = a * b;
                textBox3.Text = c.ToString();

                int d = Convert.ToInt32(textBox6.Text);
                int k = 19;
                int l = d * k;
                textBox9.Text = l.ToString();


                MessageBox.Show("Total km is ('textBox1.Text') insert" + textBox3.ToString());


                //save richtextbox
            string Saved_File = "";

                saveFD.InitialDirectory = "C:";
                saveFD.Title = "Save the file";
               saveFD.FileName = "";


                saveFD.Filter = "Text Files|*.txt|All Files|*.*";

                if (saveFD.ShowDialog() != DialogResult.Cancel)
              {

                 Saved_File = saveFD.FileName;
                   richTextBox1.SaveFile(Saved_File, RichTextBoxStreamType.PlainText);
                }


            }
        }

        private void saveFileDialog1_FileOk(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
        {

        }


    }

}

[tinstaafl]

I think you're missing the point. The RichTextBox replaces textBox1. Assuming the RichtTextBox is named RichTextBox1, you would set the style of the contents using the methods that are a part of the RichTextBox class. When you're ready to save the contents you use the SaveFile method of the RichTextBox class to create a file with the name of your choice:

'Set the text
RichTextBox1.Text = "Test"

'Use a Select method to select some text
RichTextBox1.SelectAll()

'Format the selected text
RichTextBox1.SelectionBackColor = Color.LightGray
RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Blue

'Clear the selection to leave just the formatted text
RichTextBox1.SelectionLength = 0

'Save the formatted text in a .rtf type file that can be opened by most if not all word processing applications(Word, WordPad,OpenOffice Writer, etc.)
RichTextBox1.SaveFile("C:\Temp\test.rtf")

For more information on the RichtextBox here's the Help page for it

[Daemon_CC]

Richtextbox can be used for exporting styles like font,Color,Background colr etc.Check the below example for richTextbox.

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        richTextBox1.Font = new Font("Consolas", 18f, FontStyle.Bold);
        richTextBox1.BackColor = Color.AliceBlue;
        string[] words =
        {
        "Dot",
        "Net",
        "Perls",
        "is",
        "a",
        "nice",
        "website."
        };
        Color[] colors =
        {
        Color.Aqua,
        Color.CadetBlue,
        Color.Cornsilk,
        Color.Gold,
        Color.HotPink,
        Color.Lavender,
        Color.Moccasin
        };
        for (int i = 0; i < words.Length; i++)
        {
        string word = words[i];
        Color color = colors[i];
        {
            richTextBox1.SelectionBackColor = color;
            richTextBox1.AppendText(word);
            richTextBox1.SelectionBackColor = Color.AliceBlue;
            richTextBox1.AppendText(" ");
        }
        }
    }
    }

[reminem]

Super...I really missed the point!
But now Its working like a charm

Now we can start the build...
Thanks