How to Search, Modify & Replace All Hyperlinks in a Word Document using .NET

This technical tip explains how .NET developers can find and modify all hyperlinks in a Word document. To find and modify hyperlinks it would be nice to have some sort of Hyperlink object with properties, but in the current version, there is no built-in functionality in Aspose.Words to deal with hyperlink fields. Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word documents are fields. A field consists of the field code and field result. In the current version of Aspose.Words, there is no single object that represents a field. Aspose.Words represents a field by a set of nodes: [FieldStart] , one or more [Run] nodes of the field code, [FieldSeparator] , one or more Run nodes of the field result and [FieldEnd]. While Aspose.Words does not have a high-level abstraction to represent fields and hyperlink fields in particular, all of the necessary low-level document elements and their properties are exposed and with a bit of coding you can implement quite sophisticated document manipulation features. This example shows how to create a simple class that represents a hyperlink in the document.
//your code here...Code samples for Find and modify all Hyperlinks in a Word document //[C# Code Sample] using System; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using Aspose.Words; using Aspose.Words.Fields; namespace Examples { /// <summary> /// Shows how to replace hyperlinks in a Word document. /// </summary> public class ExReplaceHyperlinks : ExBase { /// <summary> /// Finds all hyperlinks in a Word document and changes their URL and display name. /// </summary> public void ReplaceHyperlinks() { // Specify your document name here. Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "ReplaceHyperlinks.doc"); // Hyperlinks in a Word documents are fields, select all field start nodes so we can find the hyperlinks. NodeList fieldStarts = doc.SelectNodes("//FieldStart"); foreach (FieldStart fieldStart in fieldStarts) { if (fieldStart.FieldType.Equals(FieldType.FieldHyperlink)) { // The field is a hyperlink field, use the "facade" class to help to deal with the field. Hyperlink hyperlink = new Hyperlink(fieldStart); // Some hyperlinks can be local (links to bookmarks inside the document), ignore these. if (hyperlink.IsLocal) continue; // The Hyperlink class allows to set the target URL and the display name // of the link easily by setting the properties. hyperlink.Target = NewUrl; hyperlink.Name = NewName; } } doc.Save(MyDir + "ReplaceHyperlinks Out.doc"); } private const string NewUrl = @"http://www.aspose.com"; private const string NewName = "Aspose - The .NET & Java Component Publisher"; } /// <summary> /// This "facade" class makes it easier to work with a hyperlink field in a Word document. /// /// A hyperlink is represented by a HYPERLINK field in a Word document. A field in Aspose.Words /// consists of several nodes and it might be difficult to work with all those nodes directly. /// Note this is a simple implementation and will work only if the hyperlink code and name /// each consist of one Run only. /// /// [FieldStart][Run - field code][FieldSeparator][Run - field result][FieldEnd] /// /// The field code contains a string in one of these formats: /// HYPERLINK "url" /// HYPERLINK \l "bookmark name" /// /// The field result contains text that is displayed to the user. /// </summary> internal class Hyperlink { internal Hyperlink(FieldStart fieldStart) { if (fieldStart == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("fieldStart"); if (!fieldStart.FieldType.Equals(FieldType.FieldHyperlink)) throw new ArgumentException("Field start type must be FieldHyperlink."); mFieldStart = fieldStart; // Find the field separator node. mFieldSeparator = FindNextSibling(mFieldStart, NodeType.FieldSeparator); if (mFieldSeparator == null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Cannot find field separator."); // Find the field end node. Normally field end will always be found, but in the example document // there happens to be a paragraph break included in the hyperlink and this puts the field end // in the next paragraph. It will be much more complicated to handle fields which span several // paragraphs correctly, but in this case allowing field end to be null is enough for our purposes. mFieldEnd = FindNextSibling(mFieldSeparator, NodeType.FieldEnd); // Field code looks something like [ HYPERLINK "http:\\www.myurl.com" ], but it can consist of several runs. string fieldCode = GetTextSameParent(mFieldStart.NextSibling, mFieldSeparator); Match match = gRegex.Match(fieldCode.Trim()); mIsLocal = (match.Groups[1].Length > 0); //The link is local if \l is present in the field code. mTarget = match.Groups[2].Value; } /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the display name of the hyperlink. /// </summary> internal string Name { get { return GetTextSameParent(mFieldSeparator, mFieldEnd); } set { // Hyperlink display name is stored in the field result which is a Run // node between field separator and field end. Run fieldResult = (Run)mFieldSeparator.NextSibling; fieldResult.Text = value; // But sometimes the field result can consist of more than one run, delete these runs. RemoveSameParent(fieldResult.NextSibling, mFieldEnd); } } /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the target url or bookmark name of the hyperlink. /// </summary> internal string Target { get { string dummy = null; // This is needed to fool the C# to VB.NET converter. return mTarget; } set { mTarget = value; UpdateFieldCode(); } } /// <summary> /// True if the hyperlink's target is a bookmark inside the document. False if the hyperlink is a url. /// </summary> internal bool IsLocal { get { return mIsLocal; } set { mIsLocal = value; UpdateFieldCode(); } } private void UpdateFieldCode() { // Field code is stored in a Run node between field start and field separator. Run fieldCode = (Run)mFieldStart.NextSibling; fieldCode.Text = string.Format("HYPERLINK {0}\"{1}\"", ((mIsLocal) ? "\\l " : ""), mTarget); // But sometimes the field code can consist of more than one run, delete these runs. RemoveSameParent(fieldCode.NextSibling, mFieldSeparator); } /// <summary> /// Goes through siblings starting from the start node until it finds a node of the specified type or null. /// </summary> private static Node FindNextSibling(Node startNode, NodeType nodeType) { for (Node node = startNode; node != null; node = node.NextSibling) { if (node.NodeType.Equals(nodeType)) return node; } return null; } /// <summary> /// Retrieves text from start up to but not including the end node. /// </summary> private static string GetTextSameParent(Node startNode, Node endNode) { if ((endNode != null) && (startNode.ParentNode != endNode.ParentNode)) throw new ArgumentException("Start and end nodes are expected to have the same parent."); StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); for (Node child = startNode; !child.Equals(endNode); child = child.NextSibling) builder.Append(child.GetText()); return builder.ToString(); } /// <summary> /// Removes nodes from start up to but not including the end node. /// Start and end are assumed to have the same parent. /// </summary> private static void RemoveSameParent(Node startNode, Node endNode) { if ((endNode != null) && (startNode.ParentNode != endNode.ParentNode)) throw new ArgumentException("Start and end nodes are expected to have the same parent."); Node curChild = startNode; while ((curChild != null) && (curChild != endNode)) { Node nextChild = curChild.NextSibling; curChild.Remove(); curChild = nextChild; } } private readonly Node mFieldStart; private readonly Node mFieldSeparator; private readonly Node mFieldEnd; private bool mIsLocal; private string mTarget; /// <summary> /// RK I am notoriously bad at regexes. It seems I don't understand their way of thinking. /// </summary> private static readonly Regex gRegex = new Regex( "\\S+" + // one or more non spaces HYPERLINK or other word in other languages "\\s+" + // one or more spaces "(?:\"\"\\s+)?" + // non capturing optional "" and one or more spaces, found in one of the customers files. "(\\\\l\\s+)?" + // optional \l flag followed by one or more spaces "\"" + // one apostrophe "([^\"]+)" + // one or more chars except apostrophe (hyperlink target) "\"" // one closing apostrophe ); } } // [Visual Basic Code Sample] Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports System Imports System.Text Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Imports Aspose.Words Imports Aspose.Words.Fields Namespace Examples ''' <summary> ''' Shows how to replace hyperlinks in a Word document. ''' </summary> <TestFixture> _ Public Class ExReplaceHyperlinks Inherits ExBase ''' <summary> ''' Finds all hyperlinks

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Language: C# | User: Sheraz Khan | Created: Apr 15, 2015 | Tags: Search Hyperlinks in MS Word Modify Hyperlinks in Word File Replace All Hyperlinks in Word Document create word documents .NET word processing .NET API for MS Word