Change Text in a Table

On this page we will look at how to change text in a table using Aspose.Words or Open XML SDK.

Aspose.Words

In Aspose.Words text in a table can be normally changed using the Range.Replace method.

The following code example shows how to change text in a table:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET.git.
Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "Change text in a table.docx");

// Get the first table in the document.
Table table = (Table)doc.GetChild(NodeType.Table, 0, true);
// Replace any instances of our string in the last cell of the table only.
FindReplaceOptions options = new FindReplaceOptions
{
    MatchCase = true, 
    FindWholeWordsOnly = true
};
table.Rows[1].Cells[2].Range.Replace("Mr", "test", options);

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "Replace text - Aspose.Words.docx");

Open XML SDK

You can also do the same using the Open XML SDK. At the same time, note that it looks somewhat more complicated and more cumbersome.

The following code example shows how to change text in a table:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET.git.
File.Copy(MyDir + "Replace text.docx", ArtifactsDir + "Replace text - OpenXML.docx", true);

// Use the file name and path passed in as an argument to open an existing document.
using WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(ArtifactsDir + "Replace text - OpenXML.docx", true);

// Get the main document part.
MainDocumentPart mainPart = doc.MainDocumentPart;
if (mainPart?.Document?.Body == null)
    throw new InvalidOperationException("The document does not contain a valid body.");

// Find the first table in the document.
Table table = mainPart.Document.Body.Elements<Table>().FirstOrDefault();
// Find the second row in the table.
TableRow row = table.Elements<TableRow>().ElementAtOrDefault(1);
// Find the third cell in the row.
TableCell cell = row.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAtOrDefault(2);
// Find the first paragraph in the table cell.
Paragraph paragraph = cell.Elements<Paragraph>().FirstOrDefault();
// Find the first run in the paragraph.
Run run = paragraph.Elements<Run>().FirstOrDefault();

// Find the first text element in the run.
Text text = run.Elements<Text>().FirstOrDefault();
if (text == null)
{
    // If no text element exists, create one.
    text = new Text();
    run.Append(text);
}

// Set the text for the run.
text.Text = "The text from the OpenXML API example";

You can download the sample file of this example from Aspose.Words GitHub.

For more information about Aspose.Words features please visit Working with Tables.