How to extract formatting information of word document using Apache POI

Here is the best way, for me, to add code inside word:

1. Go to Insert tab, Text section, click Object button (it's on the right)
2. Choose OpenDocument Text which will open a new embedded word document
3. Copy and paste your code from Visual Studio / Eclipse inside this embedded word page
4. Save and close

Advantages

The result looks very nice. Here are the advantages of this method:

• The code keeps its original layout and colors
• The code is separated from the rest of the document, as if it was a picture or a chart
• Spelling errors won't be highlighted in the code (this is cool !)

And it takes only few seconds.

This worked for me,

    private void printContentsOfTextBox(XWPFParagraph paragraph) {

        XmlObject[] textBoxObjects =  paragraph.getCTP().selectPath("
            declare namespace w='http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main' 
            declare namespace wps='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape' 
            declare namespace v='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml'
            .//*/wps:txbx/w:txbxContent | .//*/v:textbox/w:txbxContent");

        for (int i =0; i < textBoxObjects.length; i++) {
            XWPFParagraph embeddedPara = null;
            try {
            XmlObject[] paraObjects = textBoxObjects[i].
                selectChildren(
                new QName("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main", "p"));

            for (int j=0; j<paraObjects.length; j++) {
                embeddedPara = new XWPFParagraph(
                    CTP.Factory.parse(paraObjects[j].xmlText()), paragraph.getBody());
                //Here you have your paragraph; 
                System.out.println(embeddedPara.getText());
            } 

            } catch (XmlException e) {
            //handle
            }
        }

     }