In various cases, you may need to copy the content of a Word document to another. Also, you may need to create a clone of the original Word document. To automate these operations, this article covers how to copy the content from one Word document to another in Python. Moreover, you will learn how to create a copy of the Word documents programmatically.
- Python Library to Copy Content of Word Documents
- Copy Content from One Word Document to Another
- Create Copy of a Word Document
Python Library to Copy Content of Word Documents
To copy the content of Word documents, we will use Aspose.Words for Python. It is a feature-rich library to implement word processing features from within your Python applications. You can install it from PyPI using the following pip command.
pip install aspose-words
Copy Content of a Word Document to Another using Python
First, let’s check out how to copy the content of a Word document to another. The following are the steps to perform this operation in Python.
- Load the source Word document using Document class.
- Similarly, load the destination document using Document class.
- Copy the content of source Word document into destination document using Document.append_document(Document, ImportFormatMode) method.
- Save the destination document using Document.save(string) method.
The following code sample shows how to copy the content of a Word document to another in Python.
Create Copy of a Word Document in Python
You can also clone a Word document using Aspose.Words for Python. In other words, you can copy the content of a Word document into a new document. The following steps show how to create a copy of the Word document using Python.
- Load the Word document using Document class.
- Create a clone using Document.clone().as_document() method.
- Save the cloned document using Document.save(string) method.
The following code sample shows how to create a copy of a Word DOCX file in Python.
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Conclusion
In this article, you have learned how to copy the content of a Word document to another in Python. Moreover, you have seen how to clone a Word document as a new document programmatically. Aspose.Words for Python provides a wide range of other features that you can explore using the documentation. Also, you can ask your queries via our forum.