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We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Step 2: Go ahead to click the Properties button on the Developer tab. Note: Click to know how to add the Developer tab into the Ribbon: Show developer tab/ribbon in Word. In addition, there might be some content controls under paragraphs, so you may need to loop all paragraphs to find such content control and change its text. Step 1: Select the part of document you will protect, and then click the Rich Text Content Control button on the Developer tab. Run r = scb.GetFirstChild().GetFirstChild().GetFirstChild() MainDocumentPart mainPart = package.MainDocumentPart īody body = įoreach (SdtBlock scb in body.Descendants()) Using (WordprocessingDocument package = WordprocessingDocument.Open(documentPath, true)) Here is a sample for your reference: static void ChangeDefaultContent() Through Open XML SDK, what we can do is to loop all content controls in a document and change its text. If you can find the source code of this content control, you can change this property and re-add into Word. I'm afraid the default text is define by this content control, we can not set this property through OpenXML SDK. You could, for example, search descendants of DocPartBody with the text 'Click here to enter text.' and substitute your own value. Here's an example of the underlying WordOpenXML Click here to enter text. You can control what is displayed as the placeholder in a DocPart.

This is telling you that the text for the placeholder is found in the GALLERY ('glossaryDocument') of the document, the item with the GUID *and* that the currently visible text in the content control is being treated as a placeholder. If you look at the WordOpenXML for an 'empty' content control you should see something like this

Word content control edit