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andcor opened this issue Oct 26, 2015 · 3 comments
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Determine the overall placement of tables #222

andcor opened this issue Oct 26, 2015 · 3 comments

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andcor commented Oct 26, 2015

Hi
I'm working on a python script which should be able to delete specific tables and paragraphs from a docx document. But I have a problem in that I cannot find out how to determine where in a document (relative to the paragraphs) a table is placed. Therefore I will have trouble finding and deleting the surrounding paragraphs after I have located a table that needs to be removed.
Is there any way to detect the flow of the document?

I have looked at the paragraph._p structure because issue #156 shows that this could be used to move a table in between specific paragraphs using the addnext() method. However, the getnext function of all my paragraphs seem to point to other paragraphs.
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scanny commented Oct 28, 2015

@andcor: I think what you're looking for is this: #40

It's been a while since I've looked at it and these workarounds tend to be a bit brittle since they depend on internals that are subject to change.

But why don't you have a look and see what you can do. If it works, let me know; if it doesn't and you fix it, let me know too and I'll update the snippet. If you get stuck let me know and I'll see if I can help things along :)

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andcor commented Oct 29, 2015

Hi.
That were exactly what I wanted. Now I can begin rewriting my code to remove all the workarounds that I needed to implement to overcome the obsticle that I didn't know the structure of the document.

Thanks and thanks for all the great work you have done with this package.

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scanny commented Oct 29, 2015

Glad to hear it worked out @andcor :)

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