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