Interop: how to iterate over fields in endnotes and footnotes?

Question

I'm iterating over fields in a Word document using

Document document = application.ActiveDocument;
foreach (Field f in document.Fields)
{ ... }

Works great except that it only iterates over field in the body of the document, excluding footnotes and endnotes. How do I include fields in the entire document?

Answer 1

A Word document consists of multiple StoryRanges. Besides footnotes and endnotes there are also headers, footers, Shapes, etc.

Here's how to explicitly access fields in footnotes:

foreach (Word.Footnote ftn in document.Footnotes)
{
    foreach (Word.Field fld in ftn.Range.Fields)
    {
        System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(fld.Code.Text + ", " + fld.Result.Text);
    }
}

If you want to access all Stories in the document see the StoryRanges information in the Langauge Reference. There's example code there that shows how you can "hit" all the stories.