Paragraph Alignment when Creating a Word Document- VB.NET

[uamusa]

I am Dynamically generating a proposal(report) in MS Word. By default the Paragraph Alignment is "Left". For the First 6 Paragraphs I set the Alignment to "Center", and then when attempting to switch back to "Left" aligned for remaining paragraphs, the text within the Word document remained Centered.

I'm using: VS2008 w/ .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Version 12.0.0.0, and I'm creating the document as a 97-2003 document though in my test environment the document is opening in Word 2007.

'Create Word Application
                g_oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
 
                'Create new word document
                g_oDoc = g_oWord.Documents.Add() '"C:\GraphicFile.jpg"
 
                'Dim oHeader As Word.HeaderFooter
                'Dim oSection(3) As Word.Section
 
                'Make Word Document Invisible
                g_oWord.Visible = False
 
                'Insert Each Field after the previous
                Dim oPara(8) As Word.Paragraph
                Dim x As Integer = 1
 
                'oRange(0) = oWord.ActiveDocument
                oPara(0) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(0).Range.Font.Bold = True
                oPara(0).Range.Font.Size = 22
                oPara(0).Range.Text = vbNewLine
                oPara(0).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
 
                oPara(1) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
                oPara(1).Range.Font.Size = 22
                oPara(1).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
                oPara(1).Range.Text = "List Each Product Here" & vbNewLine & "Proposal" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
 
                oPara(2) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(2).Range.Font.Bold = True
                oPara(2).Range.Font.Size = 20
                oPara(2).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
                oPara(2).Range.Text = "Presented to" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
 
                oPara(3) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(3).Range.Font.Bold = True
                oPara(3).Range.Font.Size = 18
                oPara(3).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
                oPara(3).Range.Text = "Customer Name" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
 
                oPara(4) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(4).Range.Font.Bold = True
                oPara(4).Range.Font.Size = 18
                oPara(4).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
                oPara(4).Range.Text = "by" & vbNewLine & "Agency Name" & vbNewLine & "Proposal Date" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
 
                oPara(5) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(5).Range.Font.Bold = False
                oPara(5).Range.Font.Size = 10
                oPara(5).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
                oPara(5).Range.InlineShapes.AddPicture(logo)
 
                oPara(6) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(6).Range.Font.Italic = True
                oPara(6).Range.Font.Size = 10
                oPara(6).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphLeft
                oPara(6).Range.Text = "" & vbNewLine & "Company Name Here"
 
                oPara(7) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
                oPara(7).Range.Font.Bold = False
                oPara(7).Range.Font.Size = 12
                oPara(7).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphLeft
                oPara(7).Range.Text = ""

When stepping thru the code in Debug, both the "oPara(x).Alignment" & "oPara(x).Format.Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Par agraphFormatClass.Alignment" are being assigned the correct values: wdAlignParagraphLeft{0}

[kornels]

This is an very old thread, but maybe someone else seeks the answer as I did can find it here.

the answer is that you need to set the alignment after the text is inserted, meaning not this:

oPara(1) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
oPara(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
oPara(1).Range.Font.Size = 22
oPara(1).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter
oPara(1).Range.Text = "List Each Product Here" & vbNewLine & "Proposal" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine

but this

oPara(1) = g_oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add
oPara(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
oPara(1).Range.Font.Size = 22
oPara(1).Range.Text = "List Each Product Here" & vbNewLine & "Proposal" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
oPara(1).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = Word.WdParagraphAlignment.wdAlignParagraphCenter


This solved the issue for me after also struggling to get the alignment to change at all.

[mertus]

we should spread this information:) thanks a lot.