Word is a proprietary product not designed for providing components to other software developers, not at the time being. At the same time, the present-day Word document format is open, based on the Open XML standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats[
^].
Therefore, it can be used to read the Word file and translate it to something else; for WPF, it should better be based on
FlowDocument
. Please see this article:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mahesh/viewing-word-documents-in-wpf[
^].
You can do your Web search and find other solutions based on similar ideas.
—SA