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Add row to existing table with formatting

See original GitHub issue

How do you add a row to an existing table that you’ve opened via Document(‘filename.docx’), for example, and match the table formatting?

I’ve tried things like:

  last_row = table.rows[-1]
  for item in data:
    try:
      row_cells = table.add_row()
      row_cells.cells[0].text = item['label']
      row_cells.cells[1].text = item['description']
      row_cells.cells[0].paragraphs[0].style = 'MediumGrid1-Accent21'
      # and
      row_cells.cells[0].paragraphs[0].style = last_row.cells[0].paragraphs[0].style

I can add the row without problems, but I can’t match the formatting of the row above.

Ideally, would love something like:

  last_row = table.rows[-1]
  for item in data:
    try:
      table.rows.push(last_row)
      row_cells = table.rows[-1]
      row_cells.cells[0].text = item['label']
      row_cells.cells[1].text = item['description']

So, have the ability to append the prior row to the end, then change the internal text. Is that feasible?

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AbhishekTiwari-342123commented, Jun 9, 2021

doc= Document(‘…path of your document…’)--------->loads the document table=doc.tables[0]---------> gets you the first table in the document row=table.add_row().cells--------------->adds row at the end of the table with same format row[0].text = item[‘label’]---------> adds data to the last added row and the 0th column, the first column

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ndahncommented, Feb 14, 2022

There seem to be a few properties that python-docx doesn’t expose or handle. This is what one of the already existing table rows looks like:

  <w:tr w:rsidR="007B0145" w:rsidRPr="007611D4" w14:paraId="02B34162" w14:textId="77777777" w:rsidTr="00B818C1">
    <w:tc>
      <w:tcPr>
        <w:tcW w:w="2727" w:type="dxa"/>
        <w:shd w:val="pct5" w:color="000000" w:fill="FFFFFF"/>
      </w:tcPr>
      <w:p w14:paraId="4F51D0BC" w14:textId="77777777" w:rsidR="007B0145" w:rsidRPr="007611D4" w:rsidRDefault="007B0145" w:rsidP="00B818C1">
        <w:pPr>
          <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="18"/>
            <w:szCs w:val="18"/>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
          </w:rPr>
        </w:pPr>
        <w:r w:rsidRPr="007611D4">
          <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="18"/>
            <w:szCs w:val="18"/>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
          </w:rPr>
          <w:t>Total</w:t>
        </w:r>
      </w:p>
    </w:tc>
  </w:tr>

And this is what a newly added table row looks like:

  <w:tr>
    <w:tc>
      <w:tcPr>
        <w:tcW w:type="dxa" w:w="2727"/>
      </w:tcPr>
      <w:p>
        <w:r>
          <w:t>Kat1+2+6</w:t>
        </w:r>
      </w:p>
    </w:tc>
  </w:tr>

I think many of the attributes are not important, but some like <w:shd> definitely are. I also have no clue where the font size is coming from - all existing table rows have font size 9, but the style has font size 12 🤨 maybe because of adjusting text to cell sizes?

For reference, here is also the table header:

  <w:tbl>
    <w:tblPr>
      <w:tblW w:w="9531" w:type="dxa"/>
      <w:tblInd w:w="108" w:type="dxa"/>
      <w:tblBorders>
        <w:insideH w:val="single" w:sz="18" w:space="0" w:color="FFFFFF"/>
        <w:insideV w:val="single" w:sz="18" w:space="0" w:color="FFFFFF"/>
      </w:tblBorders>
      <w:tblLayout w:type="fixed"/>
      <w:tblLook w:val="01E0" w:firstRow="1" w:lastRow="1" w:firstColumn="1" w:lastColumn="1" w:noHBand="0" w:noVBand="0"/>
    </w:tblPr>
    <w:tblGrid>
      <w:gridCol w:w="2727"/>
      <w:gridCol w:w="1134"/>
      <w:gridCol w:w="1276"/>
      <w:gridCol w:w="992"/>
      <w:gridCol w:w="1276"/>
      <w:gridCol w:w="992"/>
      <w:gridCol w:w="1134"/>
    </w:tblGrid>