Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips & Tricks (January-February 2020)

As always, we want to thank you for choosing our products and for placing your trust in DevExpress. We hope the following tips & tricks will be of value for those using our WinForms & WPF Office-inspired controls and Cross-Platform Office File API (XLS, DOC, PDF).

Tips & Tricks

• Word Processing: How to convert a document table to plain text with cell content separated by Tab characters (T864392)
• Word Processing: How to insert a soft-hyphen character in a document in code (T850329)
• Word Processing: How to find text on a specific document page (T853318)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to calculate an Excel function without creating a document (T850644)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to create a conditional formatting rule to check whether a cell contains particular text (case-sensitive search) (T854314)
• WinForms & WPF Spreadsheet: How to import data from a TXT or CSV file to a specific worksheet (T851453)
• KB Article: Common issues that appear when Office File API products are used in a .NET Core 2.1+/.NET Standard 2.0+ project (T861704)

Enhancements

• Word Processing: You can now specify whether to include a list level separator into the extracted string (T852566)
• Word Processing: Enable/disable text rotation for TextBox content (T857851)
• WinForms Rich Text Editor: Screen readers can now read text in RichEditControl (T853826)
• Spreadsheet: Create a custom cell style based on format settings of an existing cell range (T854041)
• PDF Document API: Specify annotation flags for a signature (T862319)

Documentation Updates

• WPF Spell Checker - Overview
• WPF Spell Checker - Dictionaries
• WinForms Spell Checker - How to Use the SharedDictionaryStorage Component
• Spreadsheet – Create a New Style Based on Existing Cell Formatting
• Snap - How to Convert a SnapList's Row Template to Paragraphs (Runtime Sample)

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