How to search for a specific font in a Word document with iterop

Question

I use something like this:

doc.Content.Find.Font.Name = "Times New Roman";

but when I step through the code the Name property doesn't change. thanks.

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I'm working with VS2010 and MS Word 2007 and I want to find and replace all "Times New Roman" fonts with "Arial".

Here's what happens:

Word.Application wordApp = new Word.Application();
Word.Documents docs = wordApp.Documents;
doc = docs.Open(fileName, Visible: false);
doc.Content.Find.ClearFormatting();
doc.Content.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting();

// Here the value of Find.Font.Name and Replacement.Font.Name is ""

doc.Content.Find.Font.Name = "Times New Roman";
doc.Content.Find.Replacement.Font.Name = "Arial";

// The value of Find.Font.Name and Replacement.Font.Name still "" !!!

doc.Content.Find.Execute(Format: true, Replace: Word.WdReplace.wdReplaceAll);

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply, but no you don't get a new Find object each time you use dot notation. The problem is you shouldn't use Doc.Content.Find in this kind of situation. Instead you have to create a new Range object and use its Find. Something like this:

Word.Range range = doc.Range(0, doc.Content.End);

Answer 2

I believe you need to obtain a FIND object and then use it, when you refer to the object via dot notation like you have, you're always getting a brand new FIND object, so you'll loose your settings each time.

Something like this

With Doc.content.Find
    .clearFormatting
    .Font.name = "blah"
    .Execute .....
End With

Answer 3

I used this:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Application word;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document doc;

bool found_next = false;
private void search_Replace1()
{
    word = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application;
    doc = word.ActiveDocument;
    word.Selection.Find.Font.Name = "My Font";
    found_next= word.Selection.Find.Execute(Format: true);
    if (found_next)
    {
        word.Selection.Font.Name = "Arial"; 
        //word.Selection.Font.ColorIndex = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdColorIndex.wdRed;  //change color to red
    }
}