How to add a table

How to add a table to a Microsoft Word document

For this tutorial is recommended to have followed the Getting started tutorial

We're gonna start with an empty document and the Docxmerge Add-in opened.

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We are going to create a simple table with 3 columns and two rows

The headers will be:

  • Name
  • Surname
  • Age

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And we're going to fill the details for the first row:

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Now, we have to declare the Content Control for each column of the table.

You can see how to add a Rich Text Control here.

We can turn on the design mode to see the fields:

Here is the result:

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We´re going to select the whole row, you can this by clicking and add a Repeating Section Content Control.

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You can see the following GIF: Repeating Text Control GIF

Having done the table, the only thing missing is creating a new template and testing it.

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We will get a JSON example with 2 elements:

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When we click Print, we will get a pdf like this:

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To integrate the template in your application, you can check the Api Integration document.

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