Release Notes

V1.20.2

Release date: 3 October 2024

Improvements

We have updated the Word package to ensure compatibility with Clipboard AI v24.1.5 and Autopilot.

Additionally, we have implemented a few bug fixes to enhance overall performance and stability.

V1.20.1

Release date: 12 September 2024

New features and improvements

We now offer support for the Word package in coded workflows.

The following activities are now available for Windows projects:

• Get Word Sensitivity Label
• Add or Update Word Sensitivity Label

For the Word Application Scope activity, we have added two new properties to manage sensitivity labels: Sensitivity label and Sensitivity operation. For more details, refer to Word Application Scope / Use Word File.

Known limitation

A COM error occurs when an automation attempts to update a file without a required sensitivity label, as mandated by company policy.

V1.19.4

Release date: 14 August 2024

Improvements

For this release, we made sure to bring minor improvements and security fixes to this package.

V1.19.3

Release date: 19 June 2024

New features and Improvements

The following activities are now available on cross-platform projects and they support as input both a local file and an IResource:

• Read Text
• Append Text
• Replace Text in Document

We have made multiple improvements to the Use Word File activity:

• We have increased the cache limit for the Use Word File activity. Now, the Robot no longer freezes when the Use Word File activity is used in a For each loop, in a repeated number of times.
• The state of the Word application is now preserved after execution. If the Word application is open before executing the activity, it will not be closed at the end.
• When both AutoSave and ReadOnly flags are set, the read-only document is not saved.

We have changed some of the public types from the Word activities package. For example, WordDocument had a public constructor, which allowed it to be instantiated on its own, but, now, it is no longer possible. Despite changing some of the public types, there should be no impact on activities, as only custom code is affected.

To avoid any issues following the public types change, make sure you apply the below steps:

1. Create and fill in an instance of WordArguments named args.
2. Initiate a call to WordDocumentFactory.CreateRuntimeWordDocument(args) using reflection.

v1.18.1

Release date: 12 October 2023

New Features and Improvements

You can now find and add activities from this package in Studio projects where it is not installed as a dependency. If the package is not installed in a project, its activities can be found in the Available category of the Activities panel and the Add activity search bar. When you add an available activity from the package to a project, the package is installed as a project dependency.

Bug Fixes

When a Word document contained multiple instances of the same text added in text boxes, the Replace Text in Document activity replaced all instances even if the Replace all option was disabled.

v1.16.2

Release date: 28 August 2023

Bug Fixes

A TargetInvocationException error occurred when adding an activity to a workflow using the latest version of the package with Studio 2022.10 and earlier.

v1.13.3

Release date: 28 August 2023

Bug Fixes

A TargetInvocationException error occurred when adding an activity to a workflow using the latest version of the package with Studio 2022.10 and earlier.

v1.16.1

Release date: 30 May 2023

This release includes accessibility fixes.

v1.13.2

Release date: 30 May 2023

This release includes accessibility fixes.

V1.16.0

Release date: 7 April 2022

New Features and Improvements

If the Word Application Scope / Use Word File activity is used in a project, this information is now included in the published package, and is then available in Orchestrator. This feature requires Studio / StudioX 2023.4 or later.

Bug fixes

When the activities added in a Word Application Scope / Use Word File activity finished processing a document, the document was closed but the Microsoft Word application remained open.

V1.13.1

Release date: 7 December 2022

New Features and Improvements

The user interface of the activities in the Word package is now available in Traditional Chinese.

V1.13.0

Release date: 27 October 2022

Bug Fixes

• Word documents were being saved even when the Save changes and Auto save properties were not selected in the Use Word File / World Application Scope activity.

V1.10.1

Release date: 9 May 2022

New Features and Improvements

Improvements

• You can now add UI Automation activities inside a Word Application Scope / Use Word File activity to quickly automate the interface of Microsoft Word.

V1.7.3

Release date: 27 October 2021

New Features and Improvements

• You can now specify the position relative to a text or bookmark in the document when adding an image in a Word document with the Add Picture activity.
• A ReadOnly option has been added in the Properties Panel for the Use Word File activity that opens a document in read-only mode so it can be used with locked Word documents or to avoid making changes when simply reading data.

Bug Fixes

• The Add Hyperlink to Document activity has been updated to remember the settings selected by the user when the project is saved.

V1.6.4

Release date: 26 April 2021

New Activities

• Paste Chart/Picture into Document - Pastes a chart or picture that was previously placed on the clipboard into a Word document at the specified position.
• Add Hyperlink to Document - Adds a hyperlink to a document.

Improvements

• You can now open and modify documents from remote locations (e.g. SharePoint/Teams) using a URL in the Word file field of the Use Word File activity.

V1.5.3

Release Date: 12 October 2020

New Features and Improvements

This activity pack has now been upgraded and is fully compatible with the C# Studio feature. For more information about C# support, see About Automation Projects.

A new activity is available, Save Word File As saves a Word file added to the project as a different file. You can specify the file name and the Word file type to save as.

A new property, Replace all, has been added to the Replace Text in Document activity, enabling you to replace all of the occurrences of the specified string, not just the first one.

Reading bullet lists with the Read Text activity is now supported with the Word activities pack.

The amount of packages you can find on UiPath activity feeds is humongous, and it grows by each passing day. This can prove to be a nuisance when searching for a package with a more common name, for example. We felt your pain and decided to do something about this. From now on, all UiPath official activity packs can be easily filtered in the Package Manager so you’ll be able to reach your favorite package in no time!

V1.4.3

Release Date: 29 June 2020

Bug Fixes

• This release brings fixes for a number of minor issues.

V1.4.2

Release Date: 8 May 2020

Improvements

The Word activities have been updated to be compatible with the StudioX profile. The UiPath.Word.Activities package is now a default dependency for all projects created in the StudioX profile.

V1.3.4

Release Date: 18 October 2019

Improvements

We have further increased language support by adding Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish (Latin America), and Spanish (Spain) to the list of languages present in the UiPath Platform.

V1.3.3

Release Date: 26 August 2019

Improvements

Three new languages, German, South Korean, and Portuguese are available for the UiPath.Word.Activities package.

V1.3.2

Release Date: 26 June 2019

Improvements

We want to reach out to the entire world and make automation a language everyone can speak. So, starting with this release, the entire platform is available in Chinese.

Note: Chinese can only be used in this pack when installed in Studio v2019.4.4 or v2019.7 or above.

V1.3.1

Release Date: 25 April 2019

Improvements

To align with the Package Signing feature, the Word activities pack has been officially signed by UiPath.

V1.3.0

Release Date: 10 January 2019

Improvements

This new year brings two more languages in the entire UiPath Platform - French and Russian. Since we layed down the foundations of localization in our previous release, we are continuing our efforts in bringing you a more immersive experience and lowering the language barrier bit by bit.

V1.2.6855.25422

Release Date: 8 October 2018

New Features and Improvements

This release rounds off the edges of the Word Activities Package by adding two new activities:

• Replace Picture - Identifies all the occurrences of a given picture according to its Alt Text in a Word document and replaces them with another specified image.
• Insert DataTable - Inserts a table generated from a DataTable variable in a Word document. The table is created at a position relative to a specified text or bookmark.

Also, the Add Image activity has been renamed to Add Picture, for the sake of consistency.

The moment is finally here - the entire UiPath Platform has been localized, so that you can have a truly immersive experience, from install to design and execution. Now, besides English, you can access everything, including our online documentation, in Japanese.