Styling a Word document

A Word document can contain text with almost no format, but we can also add styling to help us understand the displayed content. Word has a set of predefined styles that can be used to variate the document and highlight the important parts of it.

Getting ready

We'll use the python-docx module to process Word documents:

$ echo "python-docx==0.8.10" >> requirements.txt 
$ pip install -r requirements.txt 

How to do it...

1. Import the python-docx module:

   >>> import docx
   

2. Create a new document:

   >>> document = docx.Document()
   

3. Add a paragraph that highlights some words in different ways (Italics, bold, and underline):

   >>> p = document.add_paragraph('This shows different kinds of emphasis: ')
   >>> p.add_run('bold').bold = True
   >>> p.add_run(', ')
   <docx.text.run.Run object at ...>
   >...