Merge multiple word documents?

I’ve been playing around with this package to see if it’s possible to combine multiple word documents with a simple script. It seems like it should be possible given the objects, but I can’t find an intuitive way to do this.

Basically, I have a folder with .docx files like 01.docx, 02.docx, 03.docx etc. I’d just like to join these together in a single document as if I had “copy/pasted” each one in succession.

I’ve tried appending the paragraphs attribute of one to another, but this doesn’t seem to work, and add_paragraph only accepts a string, not a Paragraph object. Any idea on the best way to accomplish this?

ps: if this works then I am eternally grateful…this is a pretty nice package for people who are writing a dissertation, but whos advisor won’t let them use Latex 😉

[DKWoods]

I created a fork of python-docx that provides easy access to images when r eading a DOCx file.  It might help you figure out what you need. https://github.com/DKWoods/python-docx

[Jesse-Back]

@xlhu19 It works actually, but header and footer has gone in the doc1 or doc2,

I would recommend

doc1 = docx.Document('1.docx')
doc2 = docx.Document('2.docx')
for element in doc2.element.body:
    doc1 .element.body.append(element)
doc1.save('new.docx')

that would be useful In case doc1 or doc2 has the same template