Adding words in bold to table using python-docx - python-docx

Question

I'm new here (and to python) so any feedback on my post is welcome.
I have some code which asks for an input and then adds it to an entry in various tables.
e.g
import docx
doc = docx.Document('ABC.docx')
length = len(doc.tables)
name = input("What is your name?")
x = range(0,length)
for r in x:
doc.tables[r].cell(0, 1).text = name + ": " + doc.tables[r].cell(0, 1).text
doc.save("ABC_.docx")
and this will take text like "I love you" and change it to "Bob: I love you", which is great. However, I'd like the Bob to appear in bold. How do I do that?

Answer 1

Not sure this is the perfect way to do this, but it works. Basically you store the current cell text in a variable then clear the cell. After that, get the first paragraph of the cell and add formatted runs of text to it, as follows:
import docx
name = input("What is your name?")
doc = docx.Document('ABC.docx')
length = len(doc.tables)
x = range(0,length)
for r in x:
celltext = doc.tables[r].cell(0, 1).text
doc.tables[r].cell(0, 1).text = ""
paragraph = doc.tables[r].cell(0, 1).paragraphs[0]
paragraph.add_run(name).bold = True
paragraph.add_run(": " + celltext)
doc.save("ABC_.docx")
Input:
What is your name?NewCoder
Result: