Get Floating Table Position

In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the position of a floating table in a Word document using Aspose.Words for .NET. We will follow a step by step guide to understand the code and implement this feature. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to get the positioning properties of a floating table in your Word documents programmatically.

Step 1: Project Setup

1. Launch Visual Studio and create a new C# project.
2. Add a reference to the Aspose.Words for .NET library.

Step 2: Loading the document and accessing the tables

To start Words Processing with tables, we need to load the document that contains them and access them. Follow these steps:

// Path to your documents directory
string dataDir = "YOUR DOCUMENTS DIRECTORY";

// Load the document
Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "Table wrapped by text.docx");

Be sure to replace “YOUR DOCUMENTS DIRECTORY” with the actual path to your documents directory. Also, make sure the document contains floating tables.

Step 3: Getting Floating Table Positioning Properties

Next, we’ll loop through all the tables in the document and get the floating table positioning properties. Use the following code:

foreach(Table table in doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables)
{
// If the array is a floating type, then print its positioning properties.
if (table.TextWrapping == TextWrapping.Around)
{
Console.WriteLine(table.HorizontalAnchor);
Console.WriteLine(table.VerticalAnchor);
Console.WriteLine(table.AbsoluteHorizontalDistance);
Console.WriteLine(table.AbsoluteVerticalDistance);
Console.WriteLine(table.AllowOverlap);
Console.WriteLine(table.AbsoluteHorizontalDistance);
Console.WriteLine(table.RelativeVerticalAlignment);
Console.WriteLine("...............................");
}
}

Here we are using a foreach loop to loop through all the arrays in the document. We check if the array is float type by checking the TextWrapping property. If so, we print the table’s positioning properties, such as horizontal anchor, vertical anchor, absolute horizontal and vertical distances, overlapping permission, absolute horizontal distance, and vertical alignment relative.

Sample source code for Get Floating Table Position using Aspose.Words for .NET

	// Path to your document directory 
	string dataDir = "YOUR DOCUMENT DIRECTORY";

	Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "Table wrapped by text.docx");
	foreach (Table table in doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables)
	{
		// If the table is floating type, then print its positioning properties.
		if (table.TextWrapping == TextWrapping.Around)
		{
			Console.WriteLine(table.HorizontalAnchor);
			Console.WriteLine(table.VerticalAnchor);
			Console.WriteLine(table.AbsoluteHorizontalDistance);
			Console.WriteLine(table.AbsoluteVerticalDistance);
			Console.WriteLine(table.AllowOverlap);
			Console.WriteLine(table.AbsoluteHorizontalDistance);
			Console.WriteLine(table.RelativeVerticalAlignment);
			Console.WriteLine("..............................");
		}
	}

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to get the position of a floating table in a Word document using Aspose.Words for .NET. By following this step-by-step guide and implementing the provided C# code, you can get the positioning properties of floating tables in your Word documents programmatically. This feature allows you to analyze and manipulate floating tables according to your specific needs.