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If you prefer text-based documentation(markdown, etc) over WYSIWYG(MSWord), thenthis is for you! If you work in modern corporate America, MicrosoftWord is unavoidable. Even though I wish it weren’t so, most engineeringorganizations use it for technical documentation.
I want to use markdown as the source and then automatically renderMicrosoft Word. Most folks online recommend pandoc for this kindof thing. The problem is that pandoc renders docx using it’s own style.
But there’s usually a standard corporate template that you’re requiredto use.
At this point I usually stare blankly at my screen for a couple of minutes thenbegrudgingly load up the corporate template in Word and startcopy-n-past’ing then manually formatting. But…. no…. longer.
I came across a little hack that works pretty well. If you insert unstyled HTMLinto a Word template using Insert->Object->Text from File, Word willautomatically apply the template styles.
So, I generate HTML from markdown: pandoc -s my.md -o my.html, then insert theHTML using the Text from File menu item in Word and voila! I have aperfectly formatted Word docx using the corporate template automatically.
However, it’s still a hassle to have to perform these manual menu selectionseverything I want to re-render the docx. So here’s a little Python script toautomate that part using COM:
It also regenerates the table of contents and embeds the images after thetext is inserted. I hope this helps any other text-based documentationlovers out there.
2019/9/13 Update: We’re now embedding all the images instead of leaving themas links.
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2020/6/15 Update: It turns out that this method doesn’t work in the generalcase. It happens to work with my template because the template fonts are closeenough to the default Word fonts that they match.