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PowerShell document automation across OfficeIMO's document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF, Project, Access, EPUB, invoicing, and conversion engines.

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Release OfficeIMO-v3.5.3
Language: C# Updated: 2026-11-03
Cmdlet

Get-OfficeWordContentControl

Aliases: WordContentControls
Module
PSWriteOffice
Aliases
WordContentControls
Inputs
OfficeIMO.Word.WordDocument
Outputs
OfficeIMO.Word.WordStructuredDocumentTag
Source
GetOfficeWordContentControlCommand.cs:24 Edit on GitHub

Gets structured content controls from a Word document.

Syntax

Get-OfficeWordContentControl
[-Alias <String[]>]
[-Path] <String>
[-Tag <String[]>]
[-Text <String[]>]
[<CommonParameters>]
#
Parameter set: Path
Get-OfficeWordContentControl
[-Alias <String[]>]
-Document <WordDocument>
[-Tag <String[]>]
[-Text <String[]>]
[<CommonParameters>]
#
Parameter set: Document

Examples

Inventory content controls by tag.

$controls = Get-OfficeWordContentControl -Path .\Template.docx -Tag 'report-*'
$controls |
    Group-Object -Property Tag |
    Select-Object -Property Name, Count

Returns structured document tags matching the template tag convention and summarizes their counts.

Parameters

-Alias String[] optional
Filter by content control alias (wildcards supported).
-Path String requiredposition: 0aliases: FilePath, InputPathsets: Path
Path to the .docx file.
-Tag String[] optional
Filter by content control tag (wildcards supported).
-Text String[] optional
Filter by content control text (wildcards supported).
-Document WordDocument requiredpipeline: True (ByValue)sets: Document
Word document to read.

Common Parameters

This command supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable.

For more information, see about_CommonParameters.