for point in ['Paragraphs','Bullets','Numbered lists','Multiple levels of headings','Tables','Document Properties']:
doc.add(paragraph(point,style='ListBullet'))
doc.add(paragraph('Tables are just lists of lists, like this:'))
# Append a table
doc.add(table([['A1','A2','A3'],['B1','B2','B3'],['C1','C2','C3']]))
doc.add(heading('Editing documents',2))
doc.add(paragraph('Thanks to the awesomeness of the lxml module, we can:'))
for point in ['Search and replace','Extract plain text of document','Add and delete items anywhere within the document']:
doc.add(paragraph(point,style='ListBullet'))
pic_paragraph = picture(doc,'python_logo.png','This is a test description')
doc.add(pic_paragraph)
doc.replace('the awesomeness','the goshdarned awesomeness')
# Add a pagebreak
doc.add(pagebreak(type='page', orient='portrait'))
doc.add(heading('Ideas? Questions? Want to contribute?',2))
doc.add(paragraph('''Email <*****@*****.**>'''))
# Setting the meta properties of the document. This part is work in progress. If you create a document from scratch, you
# we to set them manually. There are also WebSettings, AppProperties and ContentTypes. At the moment they are initialized
# on creating a new DocxDocument. Take a look into meta.py for the various classes available. Plan is to work on those meta classes and expand their functionality to the user later on.
doc.core_properties = CoreProperties(
title='Creating a docx document in Python from scratch.',
creator='markmywords',
keywords=['python', 'MS Office', 'docx']
)
Creating a docx document from scratch and adding some elements to it.
"""
import os
import sys
import re
# adding the parent directory to PATH
path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),".."))
sys.path.append(path)
from docx.document import DocxDocument
from docx.elements import *
from docx.meta import CoreProperties, WordRelationships
#doc = DocxDocument('modify.docx')
doc = DocxDocument('modify.docx')
# Replacing a string of text with another one.
doc.replace('This is a sample document', 'This is a modified document')
# replacing placeholder with picture
pic_paragraph = picture(doc,'python_logo.png','This is a test description')
doc.replace('IMAGE', pic_paragraph)
# Adding something to the end of the document.
doc.add(heading('Adding another element to the end of this document.',1))
# saving the new document
doc.save('modified_document.docx')
