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I googled "Open Office C#" and found a commonly reoccurring tutorial: http://www.opendocument4all.com/download/OpenOffice.net.pdf

The trouble is this portion (snippet from pdf):

Change from the Visual Studio window to a Explorer window. Move to the CLI assemblies folder. You will find them in your OpenOffice program installation path in the folder named “assembly”. In this folder you should see the following .net assemblies.

I do not have this "assembly" folder. I navigated to: C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice.org 3

It simply is not there. I have to create reports using C#.

LunchMarble
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  • In which file format the reports need to be exactly ? ODT ? DOC ? DOCX ? RTF ? PDF ? – Yahia Nov 08 '11 at 21:08
  • The file format needs to be in DOC or DOCX – LunchMarble Nov 08 '11 at 21:17
  • please see my answer below... there is a free library from MS to create DOCX... if it needs to be DOC I included a link to a commercial library that can do that if need be... – Yahia Nov 08 '11 at 21:23

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I'm not sure Yahia understood what you were asking...

As, I had the same issue (I think), I thought I would share the solution I found:

In version(s) 3.x+ the cli_* dlls are placed in the GAC and (afak) inaccessible from a VisualStudio project. You have to extract them from the openofficeorg1.cab file (using RAR, WinZip, 7z, whatever).

Here is a link that goes into more detail covering the topic: http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/net-working-with-openoffice-3/

BTW, when I did this (successfully), I found 6 such cli_* dlls.

It's worth mentioning that when I came across this tidbit, I had already deleted the initial installation folder that was created during the setup, so I had to uninstal OpenOffice and then reinstall to get that folder back. After that it was easy.

Hope this was of some help.

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As per comments above from the OP the goal is to create DOC or DOCX:

For creating DOCX there is a FREE option (OpenXML from MS) available...

For creating the older DOC format (among lots of other things there is for example Aspose.Words (commercial - just a happy customer, not affilliated).

EDIT - as per comment:

All above options work independently of Word (i.e. don't need Office present/installed on the machine).

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