Insert a table into a middle of word processing document (Open XML SDK)

Question

I have a template Word document which i fill details into with openXML SDK 2.0 (using c#). I also need to insert a table into file, and i found this tutorial on MSDN. But - the example is appending the table to the end of the document, and I want it to be somewhere in the middle. I may need to replace this line:

doc.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.Append(table);

with something else. (The full code is in the link above).

Please help me.. I found nothing yet.

Thanks.

Answer 1

One way to do this may be to use Content Controls as placeholders to insert the table into them from code.

var myContentControl = doc.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.Descendants<SdtBlock>()
    .Where(e => e.Descendants<SdtAlias>().FirstOrDefault().Val == "myTablePlaceholder").FirstOrDefault();

SdtContentBlock sdtContentBlock1 = new SdtContentBlock();
sdtContentBlock1.Append(table); // Your table
myContentControl.Append(sdtContentBlock1);