Method GetMergeFieldNames

Namespace: DocWright.MailMerge

Assembly: DocWright.MailMerge.dll

GetMergeFieldNames(WordDocument)

Lists the merge fields in a document, without merging anything.

public static IReadOnlyList<string> GetMergeFieldNames(this WordDocument document)

Parameters

document WordDocument: The template.

Returns

IReadOnlyList<string>: The distinct merge field names, ordered.

Remarks

Covers the body, headers, footers, footnotes and endnotes: a merge that only walks the body leaves a letterhead header unmerged, and the document still looks right. Region markers are excluded -- TableStart:Items is structure, not a field a host would map to a column.

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