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

[Bill Allen]

Oh good!   That means I definately come to the right place to ask about
this.   I have found a FormFields() method for documents that seems to be
able to access the defined fields by number,  doc.FormFields(1),
FormFields(2), etc.   I am looking at some Perl code where a guy is using
the same API.   Is the FormFields() method familiar to the group?


Thanks,
Bill



On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:56, 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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