Advanced Python Programming: Reading and Writing to Documents with docx

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[@Sarikni_ukasi]

That’s exactly what I was looking for today. God willing

[@Galvis18]

Hi, where's the rest of these tutorials about writing with Docx, can't find them!... Thanks!

[@bmansan]

Awesome. Just the explanation about "runs" already made me understand the documentation. Thanks a lot 🎉

[@undefined36]

Hello Avi, Good video :) Is it possible to copy the content(like copying 4.1 section which has table and few lines) from doc file and paste in other file. please help me.

[@SandanuwanDhanushka]

Good job! Subscribed! Would like to see more unique content like this. Thanks!

[@shivanshjayara6372]

@5:06 why at index 1 runs do not consider python programming together? Though it is having same size and format?

[@santiagocollados8986]

oh my gosh! So simple!!! Awesome! Heap of thanks!

[@Srikanth-Ryali]

HI, Thx lot ..Any idea on how to extract page no from word document using python

[@limodog779]

hi there, when i do pip3 install, it doesnt work and gives me the message"pip3 : The term 'pip3' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + pip3 install python-docx + ~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (pip3:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException" i would appreciate help!

[@malikrumi1206]

2020-11-11. Video does not start. Might be connected to an issue with the ad that runs before it. That ad does not run, either. I just get the last frame where it says 'click here'. Skip ad just gets the white circle going round and round on the black screen.

[@elpp2937]

Is it possible to combine and compare more than ten documents and then merge them into one with amendments being marked in revision mode? Thank you.

[@gurnihalsingh5752]

Do you know how to get the program to read numbering , bullet points etc. ?

[@ManuelSoutoPico]

Very nice! How would you extract highlighted text from a Word document?

[@shivakumarag3226]

How can i find and change the certain text font size from existing paragraph by using python-docx?? Any help would be great save for me.

[@abdullahihsan1387]

great tutorial but i just have one question. how do you change the font and font size?

[@johnsmith-tc5um]

high level of positivity over here, very useful guide thanks!

[@anthonyudeagbala8558]

Hi, thanks for making this tutorial. I for one is facing the challenge of adding an image side by side. That is not adding an image in a new paragraph. How can I do this?

[@alexgora7530]

Cool 👍 thank you friend ❣️

[@witekgreg]

Hi Avi, thanks for great course! Could you please continue with python-docx serie? Do you know how can I split table in word? I would like to use something like VBA "selection.SplitTable", but I cannot find anything similar to break one big table to smaller ones

[@ollehawes3059]

Is it possible to change the data in a table to the contents of a .txt file with Python-docx?

[@JR-ly6bx]

whats the benefit of using python-docx vs accessing the VBA object model with pywin32????

[@abhilashdas2588]

You are a good orator....Fantastic really....!

[@vrkv380]

I have an existing docx file(A.docx) and want to do the following 1) copy the custom styles from another docx file(B.docx) to (A.docx) file 2) want to update the paragraph of the existing docx file(A.docx) with custom styles that i added in STEP-1 How we can achieve this ?

[@jensknaack9016]

Very good tutorial. Thank you.

[@TheCbrown146]

I'm sorry. I am a bit dense. How is this useful? I can write in word document. I just need some ideas on why I would spend time coding this instead of writing this out on word document.

[@burdbrains1019]

An example would be automating a task, like something that requires you to write a lot of information from an excel file to a word document. If you can program an application that lets you just upload an excel file and write to a word document (as opposed to having to do it all by hand), although initially it may take some time to program, that would save you a lot of time in the long run. Of course this would only be useful if you had to do said task hundreds of times.

[@ashishkumawat6110]

Awesome tutorial dude! keep it up

[@AsadKhan-cw6ue]

how can we add water mark to our documents by this module ?

[@kcvinu]

Thanks for the video. What about tables in word ? Could you please make a video on how to read from word table and write to word table ?

[@mrkeinzi]

Is it possible to update the table of content ?

[@mustarifinmuhtar1025]

i have one '.docx', and i want to add a new page on the first page of the document as cover how to do this? please help me

[@iklintsov]

nice library, I was wondering if there is a way to get a list of custom fields from docx, so that later I can populate it with some data...

[@pavankumark4708]

How to set the position of the image in the docx file ?

[@vinayraoj94]

i want to add multiple images to a doc file from a folder. one image per page . How can I do it?

[@blakeyhatcher]

Sorry for asking so many questions but I was wondering if there was a way to read a full page all at once from a document and store a page as an element to an array or something so like if I had a word document with 100 pages could I store each page in one array?

[@AndyWicks]

Simple to understand, well presented and easy to use - thank you and well done. :-)

[@JimmyGeniusEllis]

Great thanks man

[@thavasigti4290]

.docm file does not support this package, any suggestion

[@feRy3537]

Very useful intro to docx module, thank you!

[@Emlop1]

Fantastic !

[@PankajKumarShee]

Unable to install docx in my macbook. any help will be appreciated.

[@artificial-alex01101]

Use the Pycharm GUI. Open a project, go to File > Settings > Project: > Project interpreter. Then use the "+" button to add any package you need.

[@j-oy6218]

Has he posted the next video of it? As he said he is going to show how to work with styles and headings. Please reply me with a link if anyone knows.

[@ayushthapamangar801]

the vid starts from5:50

[@CSAMAROK]

how can i use input("") inside doc.add_pragraph()?

[@joaofolgado3316]

hey ! how can i replace a specific word in a text file ? can you help me ? thanks

[@harshanamiyuranga3491]

cant we read paragraph in text box with python-dcx ??

[@muhammedbayram4624]

Thanks dude

[@otrolokodemas]

print variable in the document? help me

[@Runawaygeekchannel]

Oddly, one of the most vital processes for DOCX is understanding the document structure, (Paragraphs, Tables and images) and the order. That order needs to be understood so that when we extract the text and build a new file, such as parsing through a translator, we can rebuild in the same order. its the Document.Story but i can't find anywhere on how to get this detailed out.

[@infreezydark]

why does docx not show any methods on pycharm? when I do doc. I only get if, while etc.. I don't add_paragraphs etc

[@cgthejesh]

Even I had same question, but in his tutorial it gives out the list of methods Strange. I use pycharm editor

[@frikkievandermerwe]

Wow! Awesome tutorial!

[@siddarthbali12]

It doesn't work for .doc format, what's the work around for .doc format????

[@ronit8067]

Hi, I am able to write text to a .txt file just fine. I am extracting values from a excel file and adding them to a huge string which is a message(output to my txt). values from excel (using data frame) are iterated. is there any way to output this data to a docx file.

[@pradeep-he9jq]

how can we read .doc files? can we do that with pydocx?

[@Leela_Karthik]

how to add list bullet to an existing document which doesn't have that style

[@arunkumars5428]

How to add caption for the figure?

[@luizeduardo5786]

Hello! If have 6 lines and i want to isert a image between line 2 and 3. It's possible ? Thanks!

[@johnmichaeltejada1578]

It didn't work. After I installed the python-docx, ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'docx', every time I run the program.

[@danielkessie9921]

probably problem with your environment or interpreter. always check where you pip install it, if you have more than one version of python in your pc.

[@alexanderlewzey1102]

Really excellent video, great pace, clear explanation, super useful!

[@DA-dh5vf]

Can you please make a video you on reading data from XML and writing to a table in word document ?

[@achyutkayastha4248]

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'bear.jpg'. why is it not working. I have put the picture in the python files directory. Where else am I supposed to put it.? someone help!

[@linguini8658]

you probably dont have the picture named "bear.jpg"

[@AbdulWaheed-ib4nm]

Challenge which I face using python-docx package are: 1) not able to add " table of content ' inside word file. 2) cross reference not working 3)hyperlinks not working Do you know how i can add table of content ?

[@yalairfan7252]

Can I get bold and italic font present in pdf (Which consist images) or image please help.. using any ocr or lib

[@danilolobo1167]

how can I do it on google Colaboratory?

[@iopltt]

Fantastic! :-)

[@creepersbgone]

My program doesnt find hyperlinks in the docx file, any input on this?

[@narendrapatidar]

how to remove black space in doc with pthon, It is empty line (paragraph)

[@Semilore317]

How exactly do you save a file

[@RameshPatil-mr6rl]

How to copy the content of one docx to another with all the formatting

[@afaqurrehmankhan3133]

I need help in python , where should I contact you?

[@programminghubph744]

How can I automagically enter a data in a cell in docx?

[@gaganmittal7332]

is there any method to convert the unstructured text file to excel??

[@sonamtseringsherpa]

this was simply great and very intresting

[@amramilic7680]

Will this course be available at Udemy and will there be certificate for it as well? I got your "Introduction to Python programming" certificate and the course really helped me a lot to understand Python fundamentals better. Keep up!

[@globalassistance1050]

Is there anyway we can copy the content from one .docx file to another and keep the formatting same..thank you

[@j-oy6218]

did u find the way? coz I also want to try this.

[@antitroll98]

is that even a question? just move with shutil

[@myos2188]

how could I work with tables on a Word file?

[@josereynelchauxperez947]

Excelente material, muchas gracias !!!

[@ekremberkmen]

Thanks for the great tutorial. Could you explain how to change the fonts of a run? Or making a run bold or italic

[@vipink3670]

p.add_run('bold').bold = True p.add_run(' and some ') p.add_run('italic.').italic = True

[@blakeyhatcher]

What text editor is that that you are writing your code on?

[@TheCodex]

PyCharm! There's a free to download community version online.

[@blakeyhatcher]

The Codex awesome thanks

[@kmp922]

@@TheCodex I want to join docx rest of the video's . Please help me

[@adityasher]

how can I repalce text?

[@Hunterrrr11]

I need to know, too. someone pls help

[@pushkaringale5700]

how to extract image from .docx using python

[@4ZaKing]

Really nice. Maybe even "Fantastic!" =) Seems like it is "python-docx" when installing also in python 2 now by the way.

[@theojudson1389]

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[@mathiastravis603]

@Theo Judson instablaster ;)

[@theojudson1389]

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[@mathiastravis603]

@Theo Judson no problem xD

[@luizeduardo5786]

How Can i save using use the name that is in a variable? For example: A = Luiz document.save('A.docx') -> this can't work! Can you help me ?

[@GeorgePatoulis]

if you're using python 3, write it as: document.save('{}.docx'.format(A)) if you're using python 2, it's something with "%"... (I don't quite remember, 'cause I'm new to python, but you can look it up.) Generally, when you want to use a variable name inside a string, that's the way to do it! '{}'.format(variable)

[@alexey_starshin]

Very usefull, thank you.

[@alejandrobeltran6889]

thank you very much for the information, it is very good.

[@sonorityscape]

How could I access a text box?

[@Dimanatos]

NO ME FUNCIONA, ME TIRA ERROR CONSTANTEMENTE CUANDO QUIERO HACER EL DOC = DOCX.DOCUMENT(MIARCHIVO.DOCX) AYUDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@yoshimidilg4818]

did they come up with different functions since this was posted? doc.paragraph does not work for me

[@TheCodex]

Hmmm that's really odd - doc.paragraph should definitely work.

[@j-oy6218]

has your issue solved?

[@yarmik3d]

import docx doc = docx.Document('test.docx') print(doc.paragraphs[0].text)

[@yarmik3d]

Windows, python 3...

[@bla7091]

there is an add_paragraph() method. Try using that on your docx object

[@FullPiter]

Could U make more advanced stuff with docx python? I found it actually very useful, and well the basic are very easy and greatyl presented on website of pythondocx but stuff like headings, footers are way harder to understand.

[@shivamsri6784]

Dude please tell how to fetch all the data from doc file in one single code

[@RaulEduardoFloresNajera]

Excellent

[@udhaykumar4877]

Anyone suggest how to convert HTML page with styles into word document in Django views

[@runthomas]

how to display the entire docuemnt

[@clintluna6884]

Here's code I made to read an entire text document automatically, let me know if you have any questions: def docPrinter(): import docx import os print("This prints text from a docx document") fname=input("Enter the name of the file: ") #must include .docx in the name doc=docx.Document(fname) i=len(doc.paragraphs) for c in range(i): print(doc.paragraphs[c].text) docPrinter()

[@mahdiamrollahi8456]

Great....

[@britoroque]

Thanks for this video. It's awesome. By the way, do you know how to do the same with odt files?

[@blo0m1985]

useless as it's not possible edit doc inside, only add to the end of existing file

[@rahasworld]

Why would one want to modify a word document using Python? Why not do it the old fashioned way? I ask in all seriousness

[@mahmoudhegazy1530]

super

[@CommitSNIPS]

Can you please do a tutorial on a cocoa app!

[@hazoomeh]

I can do all of this (and much more) in Word itself.. What is the point of using Python here? It’s a very basic question that you didn’t answer.

[@blacklilith6696]

Maybe when you are working on some automated stuffs you may appreciate this.

[@burdbrains1019]

As said above ^ an example would be automating a task, like something that requires you to write a lot of information from an excel file to a word document. If you can program an application that lets you just upload an excel file and write to a word document (as opposed to having to do it all by hand), although initially it may take some time to program, that would save you a lot of time in the long run. Of course this would only be useful if you had to do said task hundreds of times.