Process Revisions

Namespace: Clippit.Word

Accept or reject tracked revisions in Word documents programmatically.

public class RevisionProcessor {
    public static WmlDocument AcceptRevisions(WmlDocument document)
    {...}
    public static void AcceptRevisions(WordprocessingDocument doc)
    {...}

    public static WmlDocument RejectRevisions(WmlDocument document)
    {...}
    public static void RejectRevisions(WordprocessingDocument doc)
    {...}

    public static void AcceptRevisionsForPart(OpenXmlPart part)
    {...}
    public static XElement AcceptRevisionsForElement(XElement element)
    {...}

    public static bool HasTrackedRevisions(WmlDocument document)
    {...}
    public static bool HasTrackedRevisions(WordprocessingDocument doc)
    {...}
    public static bool PartHasTrackedRevisions(OpenXmlPart part)
    {...}
}

RevisionProcessor handles both accepting and rejecting tracked revisions across all document parts (main document, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, and styles).

Key Features

• Accept revisions -- applies all insertions and removes all deletions, producing a clean document
• Reject revisions -- reverses all insertions and restores all deletions, returning to the original state
• Part-level control -- accept revisions for individual parts or XML elements
• Detection -- check whether a document or part contains tracked revisions

You can call the static API on RevisionProcessor:

var cleanDoc = RevisionProcessor.AcceptRevisions(wmlDoc);

AcceptRevisions Sample

var wmlDoc = new WmlDocument("document_with_revisions.docx");

if (RevisionProcessor.HasTrackedRevisions(wmlDoc))
{
    var accepted = RevisionProcessor.AcceptRevisions(wmlDoc);
    accepted.SaveAs("document_clean.docx");
}

RejectRevisions Sample

var wmlDoc = new WmlDocument("document_with_revisions.docx");

var rejected = RevisionProcessor.RejectRevisions(wmlDoc);
rejected.SaveAs("document_original.docx");

AcceptRevisionsForPart Sample

using var doc = WordprocessingDocument.Open("input.docx", true);

// Accept revisions only in the main document part
RevisionProcessor.AcceptRevisionsForPart(doc.MainDocumentPart);

doc.Save();