Python + Word: Perform Word tasks using Pydocx

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The COLAB environment

Chapter 2: Pydocx – Learning how to use the main commands and functions of the library

Lecture 1: What is Python.docx

Lecture 2: Installing python-docx and reading a document

Lecture 3: The structure of word documents

Lecture 4: The structure of word documents with python.docx

Lecture 5: Breaking pages in a document

Lecture 6: Adding images in a document/page number

Lecture 7: Altering the font and font size

Lecture 8: Reading a document

Lecture 9: Editing a document

Lecture 10: Exercises for the chapter

Lecture 11: Solution of exercise 1 – Creating a document with header and paragraphs

Lecture 12: Solution of exercise 2 – Breaking pages in a document

Lecture 13: Solution of exercise 3 – Reading lines and adding runs to a document

Lecture 14: Solution of exercise 4 – Adding two images to the document

Lecture 15: Solution of exercise 5 – Setting font type and size in runs

Chapter 3: Miniproject 1 – Sorting bibliographic references

Lecture 1: Introduction to the project

Lecture 2: Solution – part 1

Lecture 3: Solution – part 2

Chapter 4: Miniproject 2 – Shuffling alternatives and questions in a text

Lecture 1: Introduction to the project

Lecture 2: Solution – part 1

Lecture 3: Solution – part 2

Lecture 4: Solution – part 3

Lecture 5: Solution – part 4

Lecture 6: Solution: part 5

Lecture 7: Solution – part 6: using the Pydocx library

Chapter 5: Miniproject 3 – Retrieving citations from an academic text

Lecture 1: Introduction to the project

Lecture 2: Solution – part 1

Lecture 3: Solution – part 2: using the Pydocx library

Chapter 6: Miniprojects 4 and 5 – References and citations match

Lecture 1: Introduction: citations not referenced in the text

Lecture 2: Solution: compressing the citations

Lecture 3: Solution – extracting and compressing the references

Lecture 4: Solution – Verification function (citations not in Reference list)

Lecture 5: Introduction: references not cited in the text

Lecture 6: Solution – Verification function (references not cited in the text)

Lecture 7: Solution – Using the Pydocx library: references not cited

Chapter 7: Basic Python lectures

Lecture 1: Variables and data types

Lecture 2: Arithmetic operators

Lecture 3: User input

Lecture 4: The concept of strings

Lecture 5: Strings: use and manipulation

Lecture 6: Logical and relational operators

Lecture 7: Conditionals

Lecture 8: Complex/nested conditions

Lecture 9: The concept of loops

Lecture 10: The 'for' loops

Lecture 11: The 'while loops

Lecture 12: Tuples

Lecture 13: Lists

Lecture 14: Dictionaries

Lecture 15: Sets

Lecture 16: Functions: part 1

Lecture 17: Functions: part 2

Lecture 18: The math module

Lecture 19: The random module

Lecture 20: The time module

Lecture 21: Errors and exceptions

Lecture 22: Working with txt files

Lecture 23: Regular expressions: an important concept to work with texts

Lecture 24: Regular expressions in Python: the three main functions