How to retrieve Text from a Document (Open Office AddOn)

The following code will retrieve the Word before the cursor position

public String readPreviousWordFromDocument() {

          XMultiComponentFactory xmcf = m_xContext.getServiceManager();

        Object desktop;

        try {

            desktop = xmcf.createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", m_xContext);

            XDesktop xDesktop = (XDesktop) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XDesktop.class, desktop);

            // retrieve the current component and access the controller

            XComponent xCurrentComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent();

            // get the XModel interface from the component

            XModel xModel = (XModel) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XModel.class, xCurrentComponent);

            // the model knows its controller

            XController xController = xModel.getCurrentController();

            XTextViewCursorSupplier xViewCursorSupplier =

                    (XTextViewCursorSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(

                    XTextViewCursorSupplier.class, xController);

            // get the cursor

            XTextViewCursor xViewCursor = xViewCursorSupplier.getViewCursor();

            // query its XPropertySet interface, we want to set character and paragraph properties

            XPropertySet xCursorPropertySet = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(

                    XPropertySet.class, xViewCursor);

            // set the appropriate properties for character and paragraph style

            xCursorPropertySet.setPropertyValue("CharStyleName", "Quotation");

            xCursorPropertySet.setPropertyValue("ParaStyleName", "Quotations");

            XPageCursor xPageCursor = (XPageCursor) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(

                    XPageCursor.class, xViewCursor);

            XText xDocumentText = xViewCursor.getText();

            XTextCursor xModelCursor = xDocumentText.createTextCursorByRange(xViewCursor.getStart());

              XWordCursor xWordCurser = (XWordCursor) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(

                    XWordCursor.class, xModelCursor);

            xWordCurser.gotoPreviousWord(true);

            String lastWord = xWordCurser.getString();

           return lastWord;

        } catch (Exception e) {

           return "";

        }

    }

In the above code by changing the Cursor (eg:- xWordCurser ,xParagraphCursor etc.. ) you can shift between word word or else paragraphs.

If you want to change which word ...simply change by changing the following line

" xWordCurser.gotoPreviousWord(true);"