Creating MS Word documents

[micmast]

Hey everybody,

After looking on the internet, I found that a way to create word documents is using the win32com object.

The easy part is
winapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
windoc = winapp.Documents.Add()

And as far as I have found you have the contents and font part, but how can I add images, tables, headers, footers, ...

Is there an API somewhere, or a book somewhere that would explain to me how this works?

I have found a link to the Word Object Model from Microsoft, but that is a bit of a mess to work with.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb244515.aspx

Thx in advance

[micmast]

After further research I found some interesting information that other people might find interesting too.

In your Lib/site-packages/win32com/client there is a tool that is called makepy.py
When you execute this file with python, you get a list with all the COM objects installed on the computer. Select the Word COM object and click OK. It will start generating a python file
if you open that file and look for the class _Application you see a list of available commands

Or

import win32com.client
wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
wordapp.Visible=1
wordapp.ListCommands()
 

That should open a document with a list of all the commands you have available. Use the previous method to find additional arguments. Allthougt if somebody has any other references feel free to still post them here.

[bvdet]

Thanks micmast for the information. I had to pass an integer argument to ListCommands() for it to work though.

wordapp.ListCommands(1)

Python 2.3.5