How to edit a Docx. file without having Microsoft Office installed

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Hi,
I was wondering how to edit - replace a text in a Word file, but without the Word application scope activity.
I cannot install or use Microsoft Office in the environment where I am executing the robot, so how can I replace a text in a Word file under these circunstamces?

I’ve been reading and you’re supposed to achieve it by using the documentformat.OpenXML package along with the Invoke code activity. However, I’ve been trying to do it without success.

This is the code inside of the Invoke code using VBNet:

I’m passing in 4 arguments.

Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing

Public Sub ReplaceTextAndCreateNewDocx(filePath As String, newFilePath As String, oldText As String, newText As String)
    ' Load the document
    Using wordprocessingDocument As WordprocessingDocument = WordprocessingDocument.Open(filePath, False)
        ' Copy the document to create a new one
        wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Save(newFilePath)
    End Using

    ' Load the new document
    Using wordprocessingDocument As WordprocessingDocument = WordprocessingDocument.Open(newFilePath, True)
        ' Get the main document part
        Dim mainPart As MainDocumentPart = wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart
        ' Get the document text
        Dim docText As String = mainPart.Document.Body.InnerText
        ' Replace the text
        docText = docText.Replace(oldText, newText)
        ' Update the document text
        mainPart.Document.Body.InnerXml = docText
    End Using
End Sub

What am I doing wrong? Is there any other workaround?
Thanks!

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Hi,

How about to use activities under System-File-WordDocument as the following image?
These activities works without Microsoft Word.

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Regards,

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Hello. Thanks for your response!
Which package did you install to get those activities? And which version?

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Hi,

Can you try to install UiPath.Word.Activities package via MangePackage?
They are available in any recent version.

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Regards,

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Yes, thanks. It worked.

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