Replace Styles in a Word Document
Replace styles with others in a Word document. This function can be used for paragraph, run/character and table styles.
change_styles(x, mapstyles)
x |
an rdocx object |
mapstyles |
a named list, names are the replacement style,
content (as a character vector) are the styles to be replaced.
Use |
# creating a sample docx so that we can illustrate how
# to change styles
doc_1 <- read_docx()
doc_1 <- body_add_par(doc_1, "A title", style = "heading 1")
doc_1 <- body_add_par(doc_1, "", style = "Normal")
doc_1 <- slip_in_text(doc_1, "Message is: ",
style = "Default Paragraph Font"
)
doc_1 <- body_add_par(doc_1, "Hello ", style = "Normal")
doc_1 <- slip_in_text(doc_1, "world", style = "Default Paragraph Font")
doc_1 <- slip_in_text(doc_1, " with a link",
style = "strong",
pos = "after", hyperlink = "https://davidgohel.github.io/officer/"
)
doc_1 <- body_add_par(doc_1, "Another title", style = "heading 2")
doc_1 <- body_add_par(doc_1, "Hello world!", style = "Normal")
file <- print(doc_1, target = tempfile(fileext = ".docx"))
# now we can illustrate how
# to change styles with `change_styles`
doc_2 <- read_docx(path = file)
mapstyles <- list(
"centered" = c("Normal", "heading 2"),
"strong" = "Default Paragraph Font"
)
doc_2 <- change_styles(doc_2, mapstyles = mapstyles)
print(doc_2, target = tempfile(fileext = ".docx"))Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.