Make a table like this using the Word UI and haven’t experimented yet to skipped cell The WordprocessingML (WML) spec allows for ‘skipped’ cells, whereĪ layout cell location contains no actual cell. span The single “combined” cell occupying the area of a set of merged cells. Must begin and end on a layout grid “line”, whether the cell is merged or Row essentially duplicates that layout for an additional row, although W:gridCol elements that define the layout columns for the table. Glossary ¶ layout grid The regular two-dimensional matrix of rows and columns that determines This behavior will not be implemented in python-docx. If the column identifier is out of bounds, anĮxception is raised. Word resizes a table (adds rows) when a cell is referenced by an.If a merge range contains previously merged cells, the range must.That of the origin cell as separate paragraph(s).

In a merge operation, the text of the continuation cells is appended to.Or m out of visual range, and provides no way other than try/except toĭetermine what that visual range is, since Row.Count and Column.Count Table.Cell(n, m) works on any non-uniform table, although it usesĪ visual grid that greatly complicates access.Unconditionally raise EnvironmentError when the table contains Table.Rows(n) and Cell.Row raise EnvironmentError whenĪ table contains a vertical span, and Table.Columns(n) and Cell.Column Row and Column access in the MS API just plain breaks when the table is not.

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