Google docs api insert column break

Question

How to insert column break using google docs api v1? There are methods like insertPageBreak and insertSectionBreak but nothing for column break.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, what you want cannot be achieved.

When updating a Google Doc, the only options are indeed only the ones to insert a page break or a section break.

However, the ParagraphElement contains a ColumnBreak element. So when creating a document using the below request, you can specify directly where you would like to place the ColumnBreak

Request

POST https://docs.googleapis.com/v1/documents

Body

"paragraph": {
    "elements": [{
        "startIndex": start_index,
        "endIndex": end_index,
        "columnBreak": {
            "textStyle": {}
        }
    }]
}

What you can do in this situation is to file a request on Google's Issue Tracker here and provide all the necessary details.

Reference

• Google Docs API batch.Update;

• Google Docs API ParagraphElement;

• Google Docs API documents.create.