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EugenS
EugenS

Reputation: 83

HOW to merge table cells with python-pptx lib

I have been faced with problem: How to merge some cells into big cell (vertically or horizontally merging) with python-pptx library?

I've found no examples to do this and I need some help.

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2684

Answers (1)

scanny
scanny

Reputation: 28903

Update: Cell Merge was added to python-pptx in version 0.6.14. The method is documented here:
https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/table.html#docx.table._Cell.merge

Basically, you define a rectangular region to merge by specifying two diagonal corner cells, so something like this:

table.cell(0, 0).merge(table.cell(1, 1))

would merge the top-left four cells, two in each of the first two rows.

Unfortunately, this feature has not yet been implemented in python-pptx.

To accomplish this, you would need to extend python-pptx with some sort of workaround function.

These issues from the GitHub project may provide some useful information if you want to pursue that:
https://github.com/scanny/python-pptx/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+merge+label%3Atable

Upvotes: 6

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