Edit Word documents but keep original formatting
Project description
Mass Edit Word Documents But Keep Original Formatting
Edit existing Word documents effortlessly and without changing the original formatting of the document.
As great as the original docx
library is, this "keep same format" feature is not natively supported. However, this functionality is pretty useful if you want to automate document writing or editing and need to adhere to strict formatting rules. Hence, I wrote this small add-on module.
Installing
With pip: pip install docxedit
Dependencies
Included as a dependency: python-docx
Functions
Most of the functions in this module work primarily with runs, which are sequences of strings with the same formatting style. This is how we can edit the document but keep the original format.
Example Usage
from docx import Document
import docxedit
document = Document()
# Replace all instances of the word 'Hello' in the document by 'Goodbye'
docxedit.replace_string(document, old_string='Hello', new_string='Goodbye')
# Replace all instances of the word 'Hello' in the document by 'Goodbye' but only
# up to paragraph 10
docxedit.replace_string_up_to_paragraph(document, old_string='Hello', new_string='Goodbye',
paragraph_number=10)
# Remove any line that contains the word 'Hello' along with the next 5 lines
docxedit.remove_lines(document, first_line='Hello', number_of_lines=5)
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