The following code examples demonstrate how to use the Page Setup dialog box in hidden mode to set multiple page setup properties with no user input. The examples use a Dialog object to configure a custom page size. The specific settings for page setup, such as the top margin, bottom margin, and so on, are available as late-bound properties of the Dialog object. These properties are dynamically created by Word at run time.
The following example demonstrates how to perform this task in Visual Basic projects where Option Strict is off and in Visual C# projects that target the .NET Framework 4. In these projects, you can use late binding features in the Visual Basic and Visual C# compilers. To use this example, run it from the ThisDocument or ThisAddIn class in your project.
dialog.PageWidth = “3.3””;
dialog.PageHeight = “6””;
dialog.TopMargin = “0.71””;
dialog.BottomMargin = “0.81””;
dialog.LeftMargin = “0.66””;
dialog.RightMargin = “0.66””;
dialog.HeaderDistance = “0.28””;
dialog.Orientation = “0”;
dialog.DifferentFirstPage = “0”;
dialog.FirstPage = “0”;
dialog.OtherPages = “0”;
// Apply these settings only to the current selection with this line of code:
dialog.ApplyPropsTo = “3”;
// Apply the settings.
dialog.Execute();
The following example demonstrates how to perform this task in Visual Basic projects where Option Strict is on and in Visual C# projects that target the .NET Framework 3.5. In these projects, you must use reflection to access the late-bound properties. To use this example, run it from the ThisDocument or ThisAddIn class in your project.
{
Word.Dialog dialog = Application.Dialogs[Word.WdWordDialog.wdDialogFilePageSetup];
InvokeHelper(dialog, “PageWidth”, “3.3””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “PageHeight”, “6””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “TopMargin”, “0.71””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “BottomMargin”, “0.81””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “LeftMargin”, “0.66””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “RightMargin”, “0.66””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “HeaderDistance”, “0.28””);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “Orientation”, “0”);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “DifferentFirstPage”, “0”);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “FirstPage”, “0”);
InvokeHelper(dialog, “OtherPages”, “0”);
// Apply these settings only to the current selection with this line of code:
InvokeHelper(dialog, “ApplyPropsTo”, “3”);
// Apply the settings.
dialog.Execute();
}
private static void InvokeHelper(Word.Dialog dialog, string member, string value)
{
System.Type dialogType = typeof(Word.Dialog);
// Set the appropriate property of the dialog box.
dialogType.InvokeMember(member,
System.Reflection.BindingFlags.SetProperty |
System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public |
System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance,
null, dialog, new object[] { value },
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}