importStyles

LAYOUT & GENERAL

WORD CONTENT

TEMPLATES

FORMAT CONVERSION

DOCXPATH

DOCXUTILITIES

DOCXPATHUTILITIES

removeSection

PDFUTILITIES

DOCXCUSTOMIZER

customizeWordContent

PERFORMANCE

stream

ENCRYPT

encryptPDF

importStyles

BASIC / ADVANCED / PREMIUM

Imports Word styles from an external Word document.

Description

public void importStyles(String path, String type) throws Exception

public void importStyles(String path, String type, ArrayList myStyles) throws Exception

public void importStyles(String path, String type, ArrayList myStyles, String styleIdentifier) throws Exception

This method allows to import Word styles from an external Word document.

You may replace the whole stylesheet or just import a certain list of predefined styles.

Parameters

path

The path to the Word document from which you want to import the styles.

type

The available options are:

"replace" if you wish to overwrite the whole stylesheet.
"merge" if you only want to import the styles listed in myStyles.

myStyles

An ArrayList with all the names of the styles that you wish to import. .

styleIdentifier

The possible values are:

"styleName" (default value) if you wish to identify the styles included in $myStyles array by their name.
"styleID" if you want to use their id.

Code samples

Example #1

package examples.LayoutAndGeneral.importStyles;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.javadocx.CreateDocx;
import com.javadocx.elements.*;

public class Sample1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        CreateDocx docx = new CreateDocx();
        
        ArrayList<String> styles = new ArrayList<String>();
        styles.add("crazyStyle");
        
        docx.importStyles("src/examples/files/TemplateStyles.docx", "merge", styles);
        
        OptionsParagraph paragraphOptions = new OptionsParagraph();
        paragraphOptions.setpStyle("crazyStyle");

        docx.addText("This is the resulting paragraph with the \"CrazyStyle\".", paragraphOptions);
        
        docx.createDocx("example_importStyles_1");
    }
}

The resulting Word document looks like:

Example #2

package examples.LayoutAndGeneral.importStyles;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.javadocx.CreateDocx;
import com.javadocx.elements.*;

public class Sample2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        CreateDocx docx = new CreateDocx();
        
        ArrayList<String> styles = new ArrayList<String>();
        styles.add("heading 1");
        
        docx.importStyles("src/examples/files/stylesTemplate.docx", "merge", styles);
        
        OptionsParagraph paragraphOptions = new OptionsParagraph();
        paragraphOptions.setpStyle("Heading1");

        docx.addText("This is the resulting paragraph with a standard heading style.", paragraphOptions);
        
        docx.createDocx("example_importStyles_2");
    }
}

The resulting Word document looks like: