wrote:but my question is does it will work if the end user doesn't have office installed on his machine??No. Your only option here is to learn the Word file format and write a program that can read and write it.

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manipulate word document without office

25 Dec 2009 by Md. Marufuzzaman

I think you can't...If you are using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word v11 / v12.

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manipulate word document without office

25 Dec 2009 by Mostafa A. Ali

My question is can I manipulate word document when End user doesn't have office installed?The issue is I want to design a program that can save docx file as doc file (no need to open i just need to save it as doc file) I will add reference to office in my project and it will be an easy issue...

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