force_copy_styles property

ImportFormatOptions.force_copy_styles property

Gets or sets a boolean value indicating either to copy conflicting styles in ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING mode. The default value is False.

@property
def force_copy_styles(self) -> bool:
    ...

@force_copy_styles.setter
def force_copy_styles(self, value: bool):
    ...

Remarks

By default, if a matching style already exists in a destination document, the source style formatting is expanded into direct node attributes and the style of this node is reset to a default.

When this option is set to True, the source style will be forcibly copied into destination document with unique name and applied to the imported node.

Note, in this case it is not guaranteed that formatting of the imported node in destination document will be preserved.

Examples

Shows how to copy source styles with unique names forcibly.

# Both documents contain MyStyle1 and MyStyle2, MyStyle3 exists only in a source document.
src_doc = aw.Document(MY_DIR + "Styles source.docx");
dst_doc = aw.Document(MY_DIR + "Styles destination.docx");

options = aw.ImportFormatOptions()
options.force_copy_styles = True
dst_doc.append_document(src_doc, aw.ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING, options)

paras = dst_doc.sections[1].body.paragraphs

self.assertEqual(paras[0].paragraph_format.style.name, "MyStyle1_0")
self.assertEqual(paras[1].paragraph_format.style.name, "MyStyle2_0")
self.assertEqual(paras[2].paragraph_format.style.name, "MyStyle3")

See Also

• module aspose.words
• class ImportFormatOptions