In Word, a textbox is a movable, size adjustable container for text or graphics. We can add text, pictures, tables and other objects to the text box. Textbox is a good typesetting tool, and can attract readers to pay attention to the content of textbox. In this article, I’m going to show you how to create and remove a textbox in a Word document using Free Spire.Doc for Java.
Add Spire.Doc.jar as dependency
Method 1: Download Free Spire.Doc for Java pack, unzip it and you’ll get Spire.Doc.jar file from the “lib” folder. Import the jar file in your project as a dependency.
Method 2: If you are creating a Maven project, you can easily add the jar dependency by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.e-iceblue</id>
<name>e-iceblue</name>
<url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId> e-iceblue </groupId>
<artifactId>spire.doc.free</artifactId>
<version>2.7.3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Example 1. Create a textbox
import com.spire.doc.*;
import com.spire.doc.documents.*;
import com.spire.doc.fields.DocPicture;
import com.spire.doc.fields.TextBox;
import com.spire.doc.fields.TextRange;
import java.awt.*;
public class InsertTextbox {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//Create a Document object
Document doc = new Document();
//Add a section
Section section = doc.addSection();
//Append a textbox
TextBox tb = section.addParagraph().appendTextBox(200f, 220f);
//Set the relative position of textbox
tb.getFormat().setHorizontalOrigin(HorizontalOrigin.Page);
tb.getFormat().setHorizontalPosition(50f);
tb.getFormat().setVerticalOrigin(VerticalOrigin.Page);
tb.getFormat().setVerticalPosition(20f);
//Set the border style of textbox
tb.getFormat().setLineStyle(TextBoxLineStyle.Thin_Thick);
tb.getFormat().setLineColor(new Color(240,135,152));
//Insert an image to textbox as a paragraph
Paragraph para = tb.getBody().addParagraph();
DocPicture picture = para.appendPicture("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Poppies.jpg");
picture.setHeight(125f);
picture.setWidth(180f);
para.getFormat().setHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
para.getFormat().setAfterSpacing(5f);
//Insert text to textbox as the second paragraph
para = tb.getBody().addParagraph();
TextRange textRange = para.appendText("A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae."
+" Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers.");
textRange.getCharacterFormat().setFontName("Times New Roman");
textRange.getCharacterFormat().setFontSize(12f);
//Save to file
doc.saveToFile("CreateTextbox.docx", FileFormat.Docx_2013);
}
}
Example 2. Remove a textbox
import com.spire.doc.Document;
import com.spire.doc.FileFormat;
public class DeleteTextbox {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//Load the Word document containing textbox
Document doc = new Document();
doc.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\textbox.docx");
//Remove textbox by index
doc.getTextBoxes().removeAt(0);
//Remove all
//doc.getTextBoxes().clear();
//Save the document
doc.saveToFile("RemoveTextbox.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
}
}
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