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

We’ve put together a list of interesting support tickets answered throughout May and June. We hope you find these support tickets interesting and of business value. Should you have any questions, feel free to comment below.

Tips & Tricks

• Word Processing: How to determine whether a paragraph is located inside a table (T889828)
• Word Processing: How to link a DOCVARIABLE and an INCLUDEPICTURE fields in code (T892334)
• Word Processing: How to search text in a document range (T896511)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to export a worksheet to a tab-delimited text file (T887412)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to clear a cell’s background color (T885686)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to specify a multi-line chart title (T897654)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to combine data from multiple worksheets into a single worksheet (T888051)
• Spreadsheet Document API: How to set the default number format for the entire workbook (T890284)
• PDF Document API: How to retrieve a page where the form field's widget is located (T890570)
• WinForms Rich Text Editor: How to paste images from the Clipboard as metafiles (T867921)
• WinForms PDF Viewer: How to handle a click on a button form field (T891909)
• WPF PDF Viewer: How to display a custom title for the Print dialog (T901762)
• WPF PDF Viewer: How to add a custom panel to the Dock Layout Manager (T899605)
• WinForms Spreadsheet: How to use worksheet data as a data source for the Chart Control (T892734)
• WinForms Spreadsheet: How to implement the "Insert Copied Cells" option like Microsoft Excel (T899515)
• WinForms Spreadsheet: How to copy a chart from one worksheet to another (T898461)

Enhancements

• Word Processing: RichEditDocumentServer now preserves "Fill in Forms" protection mode when a document is saved (T898685)
• Word Processing: We implemented support for “AppVersion”, “Application”, “Company”, “Manager” and “Template” document properties. (T905990)
• Word Processing: You can now specify Alt Text for a shape (T891124)
• Word Processing: You can now set the "Lock anchor" option for shapes in code (T877253)
• PDF Document API: You can now extract text from a page without clipping (T903241)

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