Mr. Spitz, Thanks for the suggestions, I tried it and found the object model for word and I've begun to explore, little by little. Visually, being able to look at the objects, methods, properties, etc, is very helpful.
For some reason my initial reply to Mr. Roberts, did not properly get stored and sorted in the email list hierarchy, and ended up at the top. Hopefully, this reply will be properly sorted. If not, is there a good email client, that will properly take into consideration <message-id email headers so that my replies don't bounce all over the email list or is this something that needs to be changed in the python-win32 mail list setup page? As you can see, I'm preaty new at this :) Thanks, Little Guy -----Original Message----- From: python-win32-bounces+the_little_guy=gmx....@python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+the_little_guy=gmx....@python.org] On Behalf Of python-win32-requ...@python.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:00 AM To: python-win32@python.org Subject: python-win32 Digest, Vol 100, Issue 11 Send python-win32 mailing list submissions to python-win32@python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to python-win32-requ...@python.org You can reach the person managing the list at python-win32-ow...@python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of python-win32 digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Word document with columns and page break. (Little Guy) (Zev Spitz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:52:01 +0300 From: Zev Spitz <shiv...@nana10.co.il> To: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Word document with columns and page break. (Little Guy) Message-ID: <blu0-smtp12901b590f573959a41da3085...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed This isn't really something you should be searching for in PythonWin. Rather, this is part of the Word object model, which PythonWin lets you use. For more information about the Word object model: 1) Open Word 2) Open the VBA editor (Alt+F11) 3) from the menus: Help -> Microsoft Visual Basic Help 4) Search for Word object model That will give you a visual overview of the object model. Also, pressing F2 brings up the Object Browser, which lets you see methods/properties of a particular object. You can also search for objects/methods/properties by name, using the second dropdown. Re: Selection vs. Range Just about anything you can do with the Selection object, you can do with the Range object. The difference is that the Selection object is a property of the Application, or the Window - it refers to the currently selected text in the window. The Range object is some part of the document, unrelated to whether it has been selected in the Window. If, for example, you Collapse the Selection to the end of the Selection, that will be reflected in the window of the application. Collapsing the Range will have no visible effect. Re: Columns I would suggest that you have to think about the steps you would use to do this manually. In order to have different numbers of columns in different parts of a document, you need to insert a section break, and apply the columns to a given section. So, in code: #Insert a new section + page break doc.Range.InsertBreak(win32.constants.wdSectionBreakNextPage) #Apply two columns to the first section doc.Sections(1).PageSetup.TextColumns.SetCount(2) Hope this helps, Zev Spitz On 7/10/2011 1:00 PM, python-win32-requ...@python.org wrote: > Send python-win32 mailing list submissions to > python-win32@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > python-win32-requ...@python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > python-win32-ow...@python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of python-win32 digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Word document with columns and page break. (Little Guy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:46:42 +0000 > From: "Little Guy"<the_little_...@gmx.com> > To: python-win32@python.org > Subject: Re: [python-win32] Word document with columns and page break. > Message-ID:<20110709144643.26...@gmx.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Mr. Roberts, > > Thanks for the assist. As I am not an expert at this, yet, it's a bit difficult > knowing where to start looking for the information. > > Actually, I have most of the text processing portion of the code down, and > omitted it from my, earlier, post so as to not overwelm the message. > > I wish there was some sort of pictorial object, property, hierarchy for > python-win32 somewhere as it may be a great assist to newbies to visually > see what objects and properties go where. I think Java used to have something > similar, at least I saw something like that in the late 90s. > > I never would have imagined, that inserting the break would be done from the > *rng* section, as demonstrated here: *rng.InsertBreak( win32.constants.wdPageBreak )* > > I was totally off thinking that it would be done from doc section as show here: > *doc.PageSetup.TextColumns.SetCount (2)* > > I tried using python-win32's help system's, search feature and search for insert > but did not see any suggestions could up. > > Anyways, I appretiate the suggestions. > > Regards, > Little Guy ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 End of python-win32 Digest, Vol 100, Issue 11 ********************************************* _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
