smart_style_behavior property

ImportFormatOptions.smart_style_behavior property

Gets or sets a boolean value that specifies how styles will be imported when they have equal names in source and destination documents. The default value is False.

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

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

Remarks

When this option is enabled, the source style will be expanded into a direct attributes inside a destination document, if ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING importing mode is used.

When this option is disabled, the source style will be expanded only if it is numbered. Existing destination attributes will not be overridden, including lists.

Examples

Shows how to resolve duplicate styles while inserting documents.

dst_doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(dst_doc)

my_style = builder.document.styles.add(aw.StyleType.PARAGRAPH, "MyStyle")
my_style.font.size = 14
my_style.font.name = "Courier New"
my_style.font.color = drawing.Color.blue

builder.paragraph_format.style_name = my_style.name
builder.writeln("Hello world!")

# Clone the document and edit the clone's "MyStyle" style, so it is a different color than that of the original.
# If we insert the clone into the original document, the two styles with the same name will cause a clash.
src_doc = dst_doc.clone()
src_doc.styles.get_by_name("MyStyle").font.color = drawing.Color.red

# When we enable "smart_style_behavior" and use the KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING import format mode,
# Aspose.Words will resolve style clashes by converting source document styles.
# with the same names as destination styles into direct paragraph attributes.
options = aw.ImportFormatOptions()
options.smart_style_behavior = True

builder.insert_document(src_doc, aw.ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING, options)

dst_doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + "DocumentBuilder.smart_style_behavior.docx")

See Also

ImportFormatOptions.merge_pasted_lists property