Aspose.Words is a Java software component that enables manipulation of text and formatting in word documents without using MS Word. It also supports mail merge, ActiveX controls, and various document formats including DOC, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM, HTML, and XHTML.

One of the most impressive things about Aspose.Words is its ability to manipulate content and formatting. This tool also offers mail merge capabilities with images, and supports various document formats including DOC, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM, HTML, and XHTML. Additionally, Aspose.Words supports drawing objects like shapes, images, textboxes, OLE objects, and ActiveX controls in documents.
As for what you can do with Aspose.Words, the possibilities are quite broad. You can use it to perform mail merge, generate reports using mail merge, insert formatted text, paragraphs, images, tables, and other content into a Word document, populate a table in a Word document using data retrieved from a database, create mailing labels, and merge data from multiple tables, format date and numeric fields. You can also use Aspose.Words to insert a watermark into a document.
Overall, Aspose.Words is a versatile and feature-packed Java word processing component that is more than capable of handling various needs related to working with Word documents.
Version 13.3.0.0: This release adds Improvements in style handing in Tables, Format Revisions as well as improvements and resiliency code for ODT, RTF and DOCX. Also the drawingML Charts 3D mode rendering and VML perspective shadows rendering is implemented. Outline rendering to PDF and XPS are improved
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