Generating structure in Word documents

To create proper professional reports, they need to be properly structured. An MS Word document doesn't have the concept of a page, as it works in paragraphs. But we can introduce breaks and sections to properly divide a document.

We'll see in this recipe how to create a structured Word document, introducing breaks to create sections.

Getting ready

We'll use the python-docx module to process Word documents:

$ echo "python-docx==0.8.10" >> requirements.txt 
$ pip install -r requirements.txt 

How to do it...

1. Import the python-docx module:

   >>> import docx
   

2. Create a new document:

   >>> document = docx.Document()
   

3. Create a paragraph that has a line break:

   >>> p = document.add_paragraph('This is the start of the paragraph')
   >>> run = p.add_run()
   >>> run.add_break(docx.text.run.WD_BREAK...