[Tutor] Edit a Word document programmatically CORRECTION Open not open

[Marc Tompkins]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, URBAN LANDREMAN <ulandreman at msn.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> When I ran the slightly modified code:
> import win32com.client
> app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
> docOrig =
> app.Documents.Open('n:\\MetroPlanners\\2006\\MCHResearchProject.doc')
> range = docOrig.Content()
> range.Find.Text = "e"
> range.Find.Replacement.Text = "*"
> range.Find.Execute()
> docEditted = doc
> docEditted.SaveAs('n:\\MetroPlanners\\2006\\MCHResearchProjectV2.doc')
> app.Quit()
>
>
> I got:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "N:/SPSS/Python/Examples/MSWord/WordFindAndReplaceV2", line 5, in
> <module>
>     range.Find.Text = "e"
> AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'Find'
>

docOrig.Content() returns you a Unicode object, which isn't the same as a
Word document at all.  You're then trying to use methods on that object
which aren't supported.  I can't give you specifics without doing a bit of
Googling myself, but you probably want a different call on line 4 to give
you an object you can work with.


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