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How to create or generate a WORD file using Python

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In this post, I will show you how to create or generate a word file
using Python and a library called python_docx

Install python_docx 

pip install python_docx
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from docx import Document

word_doc = Document()
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Add heading 

word_doc.add_heading('This is word file generated using Python', 1)
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Add paragraph 

word_doc.add_paragraph('This is text to test')
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Add 5x5 table 

table = word_doc.add_table(rows = 5, cols = 5)
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Add data to table cells 

table.cell(row_idx = 0, col_idx = 0).text = '123'
table.cell(row_idx = 0, col_idx = 1).text = 'abc'
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save the document 

# save the word file
word_doc.save('word_doc.docx')
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Result

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This I a simple example of how to generate a Word file in Python you can do more things with this library.

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