This article explains how to do mail merge in MS Word using C#. It has details to set the IDE, a list of steps, and a comprehensive sample code demonstrating how to do a mail merge in Word using C#. All the required files are generated in this code; hence, no input file or data is required to execute this code.

Steps to Create a Mail Merge in Word using C#

1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.Words for .NET to perform mail merge
2. Create a mail merge template file using the DocumentBuilder class
3. Create or load a sample XML file containing input data for the mail merge template
4. Create a DataSet from the loaded XML file
5. Call the MailMerge.Execute() for the document using the above data table
6. Save the output Word file with a separate page for each entry in the table

These steps have explained the mail merge steps in MS Word using C#. First, create a sample student report template, generate a sample XML file with student report data and create a data table using this XML data. Call the ‘MailMerge.Execute()’ method by providing the target table name in the DataSet and save the output Word file on the disk.

Code to Create Mail Merge in MS Word using C#

This code has demonstrated the process of mail merge in MS Word step by step using C#. We have used DocumentBuilder.InsertField() method with MERGEFIELD tag to generate the desired template. You may apply all the desired formatting in the template using various styles and layout settings as per your requirements.

This article has taught us how to implement MS Word mail merge step by step using C#. To set style and design custom tables, refer to the article on Design tables in Word using C#.