How to Add Rows in Word Table using Python

This quick article guides on how to add rows in Word table using Python. It has the details to set the IDE, a list of steps to develop the application and a runnable sample code to add rows to table in MS Word Document using Python. You will learn different options to insert row in the table before saving the output Word file.

Steps to Insert Rows in Word Table using Python

  1. Set the environment to add Aspose.Words for Python via .NET to your application for adding rows
  2. Load the sample Word file into the Document object having a table with known columns count in it
  3. Access the target table using its index number
  4. Create a new row using the Row class in the aspose.words.tables namespace
  5. Iterate through number of times as total number of columns in the table
  6. Create a cell, fill it with some content and add to the newly created row
  7. Insert the row to the table and save the output Word file

These steps summarize the process to add rows to Word table using Python. The process is started by loading the target document and accessing the target table using its index. In the next step, an empty row is created and filled with some sample data in each cell before adding it to the table at a desired position.

Code to Add Rows in Word Table using Python

The above mentioned code demonstrates how to add rows to a table in Word using Python. It selects first table from the first section of the document however you may select any table from any section you desire. Similarly the insert() method is used that requires the target row number along with row however you may use add() method to add the row to the end of the collection.

This short guide has taught us to add rows in an existing table. If you want to learn the process to create a new table, refer to the article on how to create a table in Word using Python.

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