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lucanapo
lucanapo

Reputation: 59

Append notes to body (with formatting)

This function 

function appendiNote() { //appende tutte le note ma senza formattazione..
  var note = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getFootnotes();

  for (var i = 0; i < note.length; i++){
    var par = note[i].getFootnoteContents();
    DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().appendParagraph((i+1)+par.getText());    
  }

appends all notes inside the body document, but the formatting of the gets lost ....how can I do it so it gets formatted as well (word by word, i need it to preserve italic and bold words)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 122

Answers (1)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 4344

Footnotes are objects in Google, so you need to access each object and extract the string text. You need to use .getFootnoteContents() in conjunction with the .copy() method to copy the properties of the Footnote.

More on the copy method

Change your code to:

function appendiNote() { 
  // Gets all footnotes in the document as an iterable array
  var notes = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getFootnotes();

  // iterate through the notes array
  for (var i = 0; i < notes.length; i++) {
    // for each item, get the contents of the object
    var note = notes[i].getFootnoteContents();

    // create a deep copy of the object, which includes styles.
    var par = note.getChild(0).copy();

    // Append the footnote, including styles, as a paragraph in the body of the doc.
    DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().appendParagraph(par);
}

Upvotes: 1

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