How can I open a docx file, find a particular string occurring at multiple places and add two lines after that in the whole document using python? -
as new python programming, want open .docx file, parse it, find occurrence of particular string in multiple places , adding 2 lines after in whole document. how can these thing using python script?
you follows using win32com
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import win32com.client search_for = "this text in file" add_lines = "^pline1^pline2^pline3" # ^p creates new line word = win32com.client.dispatch("word.application") word.visible = false word.displayalerts = false doc = word.documents.open(r'c:\my_folder\my_file.docx') const = win32com.client.constants find = doc.content.find find.clearformatting() find.replacement.clearformatting() find.execute(forward=true, replace=const.wdreplaceall, findtext=search_for, replacewith=search_for+add_lines) word.activedocument.saveas(r'c:\my_folder\my_file_output.docx') word.quit()
to change colour of replacement text add following before find.execute
:
find.replacement.font.color = 255 # wdcolorred
a full list of standard word colours listed on microsoft site.
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