docx_set_paragraph_style function

Add or replace paragraph style in a Word document

The function lets you add or replace a Word paragraph style.

docx_set_paragraph_style(
  x,
  style_id,
  style_name,
  base_on = "Normal",
  fp_p = fp_par(),
  fp_t = NULL
)

Arguments

• x: an rdocx object
• style_id: a unique style identifier for Word.
• style_name: a unique label associated with the style identifier. This label is the name of the style when Word edit the document.
• base_on: the style name used as base style
• fp_p: paragraph formatting properties, see fp_par().
• fp_t: default text formatting properties. This is used as text formatting properties, see fp_text(). If NULL (default), the paragraph will used the default text formatting properties (defined by the base_on argument).

Examples

library(officer)

doc <- read_docx()

doc <- docx_set_paragraph_style(
  doc,
  style_id = "rightaligned",
  style_name = "Explicit label",
  fp_p = fp_par(text.align = "right", padding = 20),
  fp_t = fp_text_lite(
    bold = TRUE,
    shading.color = "#FD34F0",
    color = "white")
)

doc <- body_add_par(doc,
  value = "This is a test",
  style = "Explicit label")

docx_file <- print(doc, target = tempfile(fileext = ".docx"))
docx_file