[python-win32] filling in field in a Word doc?

[Bill Allen]

The bookmarks way look very useable.   I will have to give that a try when I
create one of these from scratch.   At the moment, I am looking at having to
support a Word document with form fields already in it.   Not sure that is
the way I would have done it myself, but it is what I have to work with.


Thanks,
Bill


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 13:14, sharpblade <sharpblade1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been doing a lot of work with Word and pywin32, it is a
> nightmare (Especially with formatting). If you want to populate
> pre-defined fields then the easiest way I have found is to create a
> template document and fill it with bookmarks, then pretty much do
> this:
>
> document.Bookmarks("my_bookmark").Range.Text = "Hello"
>
> This will put "Hello" wherever you have bookmarked "my_bookmark".
> Works for tables and other items as well.
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> > Bill Allen wrote:
> >> I have the process for using win32com.client to create and put text
> >> into a Word document.   How about filling in fields in an existing
> >> Word document?   I am looking for more information on working with MS
> >> Word documents using the Python win32 facilities.
> >
> > We've just been having this discussion.  The hard part is figuring out
> > which functions in the Word object model will do what you need.  After
> > you know which functions you need, it's relatively easy to convert the
> > VB or C# code to Python.
> >
> > In this case, the Document object contains a Fields collection that hold
> > all of the fields in the document.  You will probably need to run
> > through the fields in the Fields collection, figure out which ones are
> > fill-in fields (as opposed to page number fields, or date fields, or one
> > of the other thousand field types), and change the value.
> >
> > --
> > Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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