start_column_bookmark method

start_column_bookmark(bookmark_name)

Marks the current position in the document as a column bookmark start. The position must be in a table cell.

def start_column_bookmark(self, bookmark_name: str):
    ...

Parameter	Type	Description
bookmark_name	str	Name of the bookmark.

Remarks

A column bookmark covers one or more columns in a range of rows. To create a valid bookmark you need to call both DocumentBuilder.start_column_bookmark() and DocumentBuilder.end_column_bookmark() with the same bookmarkName parameter.

Badly formed bookmarks or bookmarks with duplicate names will be ignored when the document is saved.

The actual position of the inserted BookmarkStart node may differ from the current document builder position.

Returns

The bookmark start node that was just created.

Examples

Shows how to create a column bookmark.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)
builder.start_table()
builder.insert_cell()
# Cells 1,2,4,5 will be bookmarked.
builder.start_column_bookmark('MyBookmark_1')
# Badly formed bookmarks or bookmarks with duplicate names will be ignored when the document is saved.
builder.start_column_bookmark('MyBookmark_1')
builder.start_column_bookmark('BadStartBookmark')
builder.write('Cell 1')
builder.insert_cell()
builder.write('Cell 2')
builder.insert_cell()
builder.write('Cell 3')
builder.end_row()
builder.insert_cell()
builder.write('Cell 4')
builder.insert_cell()
builder.write('Cell 5')
builder.end_column_bookmark('MyBookmark_1')
builder.end_column_bookmark('MyBookmark_1')
builder.insert_cell()
builder.write('Cell 6')
builder.end_row()
builder.end_table()
doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + 'Bookmarks.create_column_bookmark.docx')

See Also

• module aspose.words
• class DocumentBuilder