Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET applications to read, write, modify & convert Word documents without using MS Word.
Other features include smart tags, document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, DrawingML and support of EPUB, OOXML, DOCX, DOC, WordML, ODT, HTML, XHTML, MHTML, TXT and PDF formats. It supports printing and rendering Word documents to images. Also use Aspose.Words to build applications with Mono.
If you have worked before with XmlDocument, XmlNode and XmlElement in .NET, then you will find it is easy to understand and work with Aspose.Words' classes Document, Node, CompositeNode and their properties and methods FirstChild, ParentNode, NextSib

Business Benefits:
· Avoid Microsoft Word automation in your .NET and Java applications.
· Design reports or template documents in the familiar environment of Microsoft Word, not in a custom report designer.
· Build or modify documents and formatting with ease using an object model similar to Microsoft Word Object Model and System.Xml.
· Populate documents with your data using just a few lines of code.
· Generate or process thousands of documents such as reports, letters, invoices, forms in minutes.
General Features:
· Open and save DOC, RTF, WordprocessingML, HTML and TXT documents.
· Save documents in the Office Open XML format.
· Save documents in the Aspose.Pdf.Xml format that can be used by Aspose.Pdf to produce PDF files.
· Use Aspose.Words from within a COM or ASP application and pass data as ADO Recordset.
· Aspose.Words installation includes easy-to-understand demo projects for ASP.NET, Windows Forms and Swing with source code in C#, VB.NET and Java that you can use to build your reporting application in minutes.
Document Manipulation Features:
· Programmatically create, modify or remove sections, headers, footers, paragraphs, lists, tables, rows, cells, text, fields, form fields, bookmarks, images and other document elements.
· Specify detailed formatting for sections, paragraphs, text, rows and cells at runtime.
· Join or split documents, copy or move fragments between documents.
· Insert and format complex document elements such as images, hyperlinks, fields via a higher-level programming interface.
· All drawing objects including shapes, textboxes, images, OLE objects and controls are fully preserved in documents. Most of the drawing objects can also be programmatically created or modified.
· Insert HTML fragments into the document.
· Access and modify document built-in and custom properties.
· Protect and unprotect documents.
Mail Merge Features:
· Use standard Microsoft Word mail merge fields or bookmarks in your reports.
· Use Aspose.Words extended syntax for mail merge fields to perform more complex operations during mail merge such as insert images or repeatable regions.
· Populate and dynamically grow tables or fragments in the document from your data source using mail merge regions.
· Populate the document from any .NET data source such as DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataReader or from an XML file.
· Populate the document from any Java data source that implements the ResultSet interface.
· Take precise control, such as number formatting, over how your data is merged into the document using events.

Requirements:
· .NET Framework 4.0 or below
· Visual Studio 2010 or below

Limitations:
· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release:
· Nested mail merge regions are supported.
· Microsoft Word's mail merge settings and data source are preserved.
· FlatOPC is supported.
· Watermarks, background and WordArt are rendered to PDF, XPS and printed.
· Print tickets are added to generated XPS with paper size, orientation and paper tray information.
· DOCX to DOC and other formats conversion is improved. Many formatting loss issues resolved.
· Many improvements in the OpenDocument Text (ODT) module.