While working with MS Word documents, you may need to copy the content from one document to another. Moreover, the clones of Word documents are also required in certain cases. To automate these operations, this article covers how to copy the content from one Word document to another in Java. Also, you will learn how to create a copy of a Word document programmatically.
- Java Library to Copy Content of Word Documents
- Copy Content from One Word Document to Another
- Create Copy of a Word Document
Java Library to Copy Content of Word Documents
To copy the content from one document to another, we will use Aspose.Words for Java. It is a feature-rich library to create and manipulate Word documents from within the Java applications. You can download the API’s JAR from the downloads section or install it using the following Maven configurations in pom.xml.
<repository>
<id>AsposeJavaAPI</id>
<name>Aspose Java API</name>
<url>https://repository.aspose.com/repo/</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.aspose</groupId>
<artifactId>aspose-words</artifactId>
<version>21.11</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
Copy Content from a Word Document to Another in Java
The following are the steps to copy the content of a Word document to another using Java.
- Load the source Word document using Document class.
- Similarly, load the destination document using Document class.
- Copy the content of source Word document into destination document using Document.appendDocument(Document, ImportFormatMode) method.
- Save the destination document using Document.save(string) method.
The following code sample shows how to copy the content of a Word document to another.
Create Copy of a Word Document in Java
You can also copy the content of a Word document into a new document. In other words, you can create a clone of a document. The following are the steps to create a copy of the Word document using Java.
- Load the Word document using Document class.
- Create a clone using Document.deepClone() method.
- Save the cloned document using Document.save(string) method.
The following code sample shows how to create a copy of a Word DOCX file in Java.
Get a Free API License
You can get a temporary license in order to use Aspose.Words for Java without evaluation limitations.
Conclusion
In this article, you have learned how to copy the content from a Word document to another in Java. Moreover, you have seen how to clone a Word document programmatically. Aspose.Words for Java provides a wide range of other features that you can explore using the documentation. Also, you can ask your queries via our forum.