This is the latest in a series of articles about Automating Word with Ruby.
There's a variety of formatting that you can apply to Range objects in Word. Let's look at some of the most common...
Fonts
To change the font of a Range object, set its Font.Name value to a valid font name:
document.Words(1).Font.Name = 'Verdana'
To change the font size of a Range object, set its Font.Size value:
document.Words(1).Font.Size = 18
To set Bold, Italic, and Underline properties of a Range object, supply a boolean value:
document.Sentences(1).Font.Bold = true
document.Sentences(1).Font.Italic = true
document.Sentences(1).Font.Underline = true
Indenting
To indent a paragraph, call its Indent method. For example, to indent all paragraphs in the document:
document.Paragraphs.Indent
To un-indent a paragraph, call its Outdent method. For example, to un-indent only the first paragraph:
document.Paragraphs(1).Outdent
Alignment
To align a paragraph, set its Alignment value to one of the following values:
Left = 0
Center = 1
Right = 2
Justify = 3
To center-align the second paragraph, for example:
document.Paragraphs(2).Alignment = 1
That's all for now, and I hope you find it helpful. As always, post a comment here or send me an email to request future topics.
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Thanks for the information about formatting. That's just what I needed to know!
ReplyDeleteSide-note:
ReplyDeleteYou can find out lots more stuff by using the code-completion facility (is it called `IntelliSense'?) in Word's macros to discover more about the automation methods.
You access the macros (I don't have a Word here - running off memory) by going to Tools -> Macros -> Visual Basic Editor then clicking on the word document object (I think it will be called document1 or something), and, when you type `document1.' (with the dot), a list of methods and properties will drop down. Surf through. Enjoy. :o)