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You have three basic options:<br />
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1. Instruct the user to update fields manually by pressing Ctrl+A, F9<br />
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2. Set the &quot;Dirty&quot; property of the FieldChar object to True. This will inform Word when it opens the document that the field code should be updated. Word will display a message to the user, asking if it's allowed to update the field code.<br />
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3. Before passing the document to the user, process it using Word Automation Services to update the &quot;dirty&quot; field codes. (More about the Automation Service at <a href="http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/09/26/what-s-new-in-word-automation-services.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/09/26/what-s-new-in-word-automation-services.aspx</a>).<br />
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4. Perform the calculation yourself, as part of the Open XML code, and insert the result into the document.
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You have three basic options:

1. Instruct the user to update fields manually by pressing Ctrl+A, F9

2. Set the "Dirty" property of the FieldChar object to True. This will inform Word when it opens the document that the field code should be updated. Word will display a message to the user, asking if it's allowed to update the field code.

3. Before passing the document to the user, process it using Word Automation Services to update the "dirty" field codes. (More about the Automation Service at http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/09/26/what-s-new-in-word-automation-services.aspx [http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/09/26/what-s-new-in-word-automation-services.aspx]).

4. Perform the calculation yourself, as part of the Open XML code, and insert the result into the document.

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Can the MS Word Merge field formula be calculated using OpenXML<br />
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Thanks<br />
Imran
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Can the MS Word Merge field formula be calculated using OpenXML

Thanks
Imran

MS Word Merge field formula calculation using OpenXML

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.