Word.Application class

Returns a Bibliography object that represents the bibliography reference sources stored in Microsoft Word.

readonly bibliography: Word.Bibliography;

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[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

Specifies if Microsoft Word automatically detects the language you are using as you type.

checkLanguage: boolean;

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[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

The request context associated with the object. This connects the add-in's process to the Office host application's process.

context: RequestContext;

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Gets a LanguageId value that represents the language selected for the Microsoft Word user interface.

readonly language: Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu";

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[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

Returns a TemplateCollection object that represents all the available templates: global templates and those attached to open documents.

readonly templates: Word.TemplateCollection;

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[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

Creates a new document by using an optional Base64-encoded .docx file.

createDocument(base64File?: string): Word.DocumentCreated;

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[ API set: WordApi 1.3 ]

Examples

// Link to full sample: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/word/50-document/insert-external-document.yaml

// Updates the text of the current document with the text from another document passed in as a Base64-encoded string.
await Word.run(async (context) => {
  // Use the Base64-encoded string representation of the selected .docx file.
  const externalDoc: Word.DocumentCreated = context.application.createDocument(externalDocument);
  await context.sync();

  if (!Office.context.requirements.isSetSupported("WordApiHiddenDocument", "1.3")) {
    console.warn("The WordApiHiddenDocument 1.3 requirement set isn't supported on this client so can't proceed. Try this action on a platform that supports this requirement set.");
    return;
  }

  const externalDocBody: Word.Body = externalDoc.body;
  externalDocBody.load("text");
  await context.sync();

  // Insert the external document's text at the beginning of the current document's body.
  const externalDocBodyText = externalDocBody.text;
  const currentDocBody: Word.Body = context.document.body;
  currentDocBody.insertText(externalDocBodyText, Word.InsertLocation.start);
  await context.sync();
});

Queues up a command to load the specified properties of the object. You must call context.sync() before reading the properties.

load(options?: Word.Interfaces.ApplicationLoadOptions): Word.Application;

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Queues up a command to load the specified properties of the object. You must call context.sync() before reading the properties.

load(propertyNames?: string | string[]): Word.Application;

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Queues up a command to load the specified properties of the object. You must call context.sync() before reading the properties.

load(propertyNamesAndPaths?: {
            select?: string;
            expand?: string;
        }): Word.Application;

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Create a new instance of the Word.Application object.

static newObject(context: OfficeExtension.ClientRequestContext): Word.Application;

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Opens a document and displays it in a new tab or window. The following are examples for the various supported clients and platforms.

• Remote or cloud location example: https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/some/path/Document.docx

• Local location examples for Windows: C:\\Users\\Someone\\Documents\\Document.docx (includes required escaped backslashes), file://mycomputer/myfolder/Document.docx

• Local location example for Mac and iOS: /User/someone/document.docx

openDocument(filePath: string): void;

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[ API set: WordApi 1.6 ]

Parse styles from template Base64 file and return JSON format of retrieved styles as a string.

retrieveStylesFromBase64(base64File: string): OfficeExtension.ClientResult<string>;

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[ API set: WordApi 1.5 ]

Examples

// Link to full sample: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/word/50-document/get-external-styles.yaml

// Gets style info from another document passed in as a Base64-encoded string.
await Word.run(async (context) => {
  const retrievedStyles = context.application.retrieveStylesFromBase64(externalDocument);
  await context.sync();

  console.log("Styles from the other document:", retrievedStyles.value);
});

Sets multiple properties of an object at the same time. You can pass either a plain object with the appropriate properties, or another API object of the same type.

set(properties: Interfaces.ApplicationUpdateData, options?: OfficeExtension.UpdateOptions): void;

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Sets multiple properties on the object at the same time, based on an existing loaded object.

set(properties: Word.Application): void;

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Overrides the JavaScript toJSON() method in order to provide more useful output when an API object is passed to JSON.stringify(). (JSON.stringify, in turn, calls the toJSON method of the object that's passed to it.) Whereas the original Word.Application object is an API object, the toJSON method returns a plain JavaScript object (typed as Word.Interfaces.ApplicationData) that contains shallow copies of any loaded child properties from the original object.

toJSON(): Word.Interfaces.ApplicationData;

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