This basic tutorial guides you on how to edit Word document using Python with the help of steps to configure the environment, details about loading an existing Word document and moving control to the desired position in it. You will learn how Python edit DOCX by adding a paragraph at the beginning of the loaded DOCX file. It will also teach to set the formatting of the newly added text.

Steps to Edit Word Document with Python

1. Establish the environment to use Aspose.Words for Python via .NET to edit a Word document
2. Import the namespace aspose.words by providing an alias to it
3. Load the desired Word file into Document object that is to be modified using Python
4. Instantiate a DocumentBuilder class object using the loaded Word file
5. Using this DocumentBuilder object move to the start of the the document
6. Get the font of the current cursor location and modify it as per your requirement
7. Set paragraph formatting and write the desired text before saving it back on the disk

These steps describe the process to edit Word document with Python by sharing a link to configure the environment and then a sequence of tasks to achieve the functionality. You will load the desired document and move control to the start of the document however, you can move it to anywhere in the loaded document. Once the control is moved at some position, it automatically picks the font and other settings of the text at that location which you can modify and use for your text insertion or modification as demonstrated in the following sample code.

Code to Edit DOCX in Python

To edit DOCX Python code is demonstrated here that uses DocumentBuilder class object to control the loaded Word file. This class provides features to move control using move_to_document_start, move_to_document_end, and any other element in the document along with the features to write new lines and insert text into the existing contents. It can also be used to work with tables, insert different types of breaks, insert controls like checkboxes, combo boxes, footnotes, and insert images to name a few.

This article has guided us to edit DOCX in Python, however if you want to learn to create a new word document using Python, refer to the article on how to create Word document using Python.