I want to highlight text in docx and save it another file. here is my code
from docx import Document
def highlight_text(filename):
doc = Document(filename)
for p in doc.paragraphs:
if 'vehicle' in p.text:
inline = p.runs
# print(inline)
# Loop added to work with runs (strings with same style)
for i in range(len(inline)):
# print((inline[i].text).encode('ascii'))
if 'vehicle' in inline[i].text:
x=inline[i].text.split('vehicle')
inline[i].clear()
for j in range(len(x)-1):
inline[i].add_text(x[j])
y=inline[i].add_text('vehicle')
y.highlight_color='YELLOW'
# print (p.text)
doc.save('t2.docx')
return 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
highlight_text('t1.docx')
word is not getting highlighted what i am doing wrong.
Highlighting is an attribute of a font, not a run directly. Also, Run.add_text() returns a _Text object, not a run.
from docx.enum.text import WD_COLOR_INDEX
for paragraph in document.paragraphs:
if 'vehicle' in paragraph.text:
for run in paragraph.runs:
if 'vehicle' in run.text:
x = run.text.split('vehicle')
run.clear()
for i in range(len(x)-1):
run.add_text(x[i])
run.add_text('vehicle')
run.font.highlight_color = WD_COLOR_INDEX.YELLOW
Also, a highlight is applied to the entire run, so you need to create a separate runs for each of the text before "vehicle", the "vehicle" word itself, and the text after "vehicle".
Also, there's no guarantee that a given word appears completely within a single run; runs often split within a word. So you'll need to be more sophisticated in your approach to handle the general case.
So there's quite a bit more work to do here, but this should get you seeing at least some yellow highlighting :)