John Salerno wrote:
I figured my first step is to install the win32 extension, which I did,
but I can't seem to find any documentation for it. A couple of the links
on Mark Hammond's site don't seem to work.
Anyway, all I need to do is search in the Word document for certain
strings and either delete them or replace them. Easy enough, if only I
knew which function, etc. to use.
Hope someone can push me in the right direction.
Thanks.
The easiest way for me to do things like this is to do it in Word and
record a VB Macro. For instance you will see something like this:
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "save it"
.Replacement.Text = "dont save it"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchByte = False
.CorrectHangulEndings = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchFuzzy = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
and then hand translate it to Win32 Python, like:
wordApp = Dispatch("Word.Application")
wordDoc=wordApp.Documents.Add(...some word file name...)
wordRange=wordDoc.Range(0,0).Select()
sel=wordApp.Selection
sel.Find.ClearFormatting()
sel.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting()
sel.Find.Text = "save it"
sel.Find.Replacement.Text = "dont save it"
sel.Find.Forward = True
sel.Find.Wrap = constants.wdFindContinue
sel.Find.Format = False
sel.Find.MatchCase = False
sel.Find.MatchWholeWord = False
sel.Find.MatchByte = False
sel.Find.CorrectHangulEndings = False
sel.Find.MatchAllWordForms = False
sel.Find.MatchSoundsLike = False
sel.Find.MatchWildcards = False
sel.Find.MatchFuzzy = False
sel.Find.Find.Execute(Replace=constants.wdReplaceA ll)
wordDoc.SaveAs(...some word file name...)
Can't say that this works as I typed because I haven't try it myself
but should give you a good start.
Make sure you run the makepy.py program in the
\python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client directory and install the
"MS Word 11.0 Object Library (8.3)" (or something equivalent). On my
computers, this is not installed automatically and I have to remember
to do it myself or else things won't work.
Good Luck.