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Matin Kh
Matin Kh

Reputation: 5178

How to fill tables of a word document programatically

I have been given a Microsoft Word Document, with some tables and spots to fill in automatically. I am not sure if this can be done with JAVA, which is my most preferable language.

I am looking for a way to implement a function which I can give the word file to it, and it fills the required spots for me. Is it possible to do it? A hint or a link to a tutorial would definitely suffice. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 525

Answers (1)

John R
John R

Reputation: 2106

Newer versions Word store documents as zipped XML. Have you filled out the form manually in Word and done a before/after comparison on the XML? Depending on the extent of the changes you could use the standard Java XML APIs to do the same thing programmatically.

A bit of googling and I found docx4j and Apache POI. I haven't used either personally, but it appears that what you're asking for is certainly possible. See this example from the POI SVN repo on how to manipulate tables.

Upvotes: 1

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