I assume you are using the caption feature of Word, that is, captions were not typed in as normal text, but were inserted using Insert > Caption (Word versions before 2007), or References > Insert Caption (in the ribbon of Word 2007 and up). If done correctly, the captions are really ‘fields’. You’ll know if … Read more
todonotes is another package that makes nice looking callouts. You can see a number of examples in the documentation.
Short answer: set cell width individually. for cell in table.columns[0].cells: cell.width = Inches(0.5) python-docx does what you tell it to do when you set column width. The problem is that Word ignores it. Other clients, like LibreOffice, respect the column width setting. A .docx file is in XML format (hence the ‘x’ suffix in the … Read more
Try using pandoc pandoc -f html -t docx -o output.docx input.html If the input or output format is not specified explicitly, pandoc will attempt to guess it from the extensions of the input and output filenames. — pandoc manual So you can even use pandoc -o output.docx input.html
I believe the explanation has to do with how older programming languages (WordBasic and early VBA) stored the integer values of True and False. In those days, True = -1 and False = 0. Newer programming languages still use 0 for False, but 1 for True. The majority of Word’s Boolean type properties continue to … Read more
You can use Notepad++ to accomplish this in three ways. Just so you know, Notepad++ is a more advanced version of Notepad, which supports syntax highlighting of different code files “out of the box” – Visual Basic included! Download & install it, fire it up, and load up your VBA code. You should automatically see … Read more
After reading your post above, I made a 100% native Python docx module to solve this specific problem. # Import the module from docx import document, opendocx # Open the .docx file document = opendocx(‘A document.docx’) # Search returns true if found search(document,’your search string’) The docx module is at https://python-docx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
You might want want to rethink the structure of you application, if you really, really want one method to return multiple values. Either break things apart, so distinct methods return distinct values, or figure out a logical grouping and build an object to hold that data that can in turn be returned. ‘ this is … Read more
Apparently, when the addin project is created, debug information such as the MS Office version and the executable path used for debugging is saved in the .CSPROJ file. So debug is not guaranteed to work on another machine. This information is saved in following XML node of the project file: ProjectExtensions \ VisualStudio \ FlavorProperties … Read more