Introduction
Use Microsoft Word workflow activities to read, search, extract, and modify Microsoft Word documents within BPA workflows.
Each activity operates on a document provided through a Word File. The document is represented by a File Reference, allowing Word activities to work with files from cloud storage, email attachments, uploaded files, and previous activity outputs.
There are no separate Open Document or Close Document activities. The runtime automatically opens the document, performs the requested operation, saves changes when applicable, and closes the document.
Activities that modify a document update the specified Word File in place, allowing the same file reference to be reused by subsequent Word activities.
Many Word activities support an optional Password property for opening password-protected documents.
See Word Document Selection for details about selecting and working with Word documents.
Word layout, pagination, and page indexing can differ between Windows and Linux because document rendering is platform-dependent.
When possible, prefer bookmarks and content-based searches instead of page-dependent operations. See Linux and cross-platform limitations for details.
