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Preview a Docx file in MS Word. Modify the Docx file or the extracted document.xml or style.xml and the document will reload in MS Word and show the changes.

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docx-live-reload

This is a command line tool that is useful for experimenting with Word documents and learning about WordprocessingML structures.

Requirements

It works on Windows only and MS Word must be installed.

Usage

Running: docx-live-reload example.docx

Will create extract the content of the document to a test.docx__extracted folder, making changes to example.docx__extracted\word\document.xml or ..styles.xml will cause the document to reload in MS Word and show the changes.

Also making changes to example.docx using python-docx for example will also cause the document to reload in MS Word and show the changes.

After running the tool you can type r to manaually reload the document in MS Word and type q to quit.

Installation

pip install docx-live-reload

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