Using python win32com can't make two separate tables in MS Word 2007
Question: I am trying to create multiple tables in a new Microsoft Word document using
Python. I can create the first table okay. But I think I have the COM Range
object configured wrong. It is not pointing to the end. The first table is put
before "Hello I am a text!", the second table is put inside the first table's
first cell. I thought that returning a Range from wordapp will return the full
range, then collapse it using wdCollapseStart Enum which I think is 1. (I
can't find the constants in Python win32com.). So adding a table to the end of
the Range will add it to the end of the document but that is not happening.

Any ideas?

Thanks Tim

    
    
    import win32com.client
    
    wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application") 
    wordapp.Visible = 1 
    worddoc = wordapp.Documents.Add()
    worddoc.PageSetup.Orientation = 1 
    worddoc.PageSetup.BookFoldPrinting = 1 
    worddoc.Content.Font.Size = 11
    worddoc.Content.Paragraphs.TabStops.Add (100)
    worddoc.Content.Text = "Hello, I am a text!"
    
    location = worddoc.Range()
    location.Collapse(1)
    location.Paragraphs.Add()
    location.Collapse(1)
    table = location.Tables.Add (location, 3, 4)
    table.ApplyStyleHeadingRows = 1
    table.AutoFormat(16)
    table.Cell(1,1).Range.InsertAfter("Teacher")
    
    location1 = worddoc.Range()
    location1.Paragraphs.Add()
    location1.Collapse(1)
    table = location1.Tables.Add (location1, 3, 4)
    table.ApplyStyleHeadingRows = 1
    table.AutoFormat(16)
    table.Cell(1,1).Range.InsertAfter("Teacher1")
    worddoc.Content.MoveEnd
    worddoc.Close() # Close the Word Document (a save-Dialog pops up)
    wordapp.Quit() # Close the Word Application
    


Answer: The problem seems to be in the Range object that represents a part of the
document. In my original code the Range object contains the first cell and
starts at the first cell, where it will insert. Instead I want to insert at
the end of the range. So I got the following code replacement to work. I moved
the Collapse after the Add() call and gave it an argument of 0. Now there is
only one Collapse call per Range object.

    
    
    location = worddoc.Range()
    location.Paragraphs.Add()
    location.Collapse(0)
    

Now the code works, I can read from a database and populate new tables from
each entry.

Tim

