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Question

I am seeking guidance from experts like you. I would like to automate (via a Word Addin using JavaScript) a repetitive task regarding sample ballot production. The process would go like this:

1. Take a ,txt file as input. The text file has ballot information
2. Process the .txt file into Word "components" w/ named fields
3. Build a .docx file with proper formatting applied to the component fields

To make this more concrete here's an example.

1) Text file content looks like this:

2) The desired "component" would look like this:
Office title: Justice of the Supreme Court
Office instructions: Vote for ONE
Candidate name 1: Maria McLaughlin
Candidate party 1: Democratic
Candidate name 2: Kevin Brobson
Candidate party 2: Republican
3) The docx file content would look like this:

Is there anything like a "component" in Word? (e.g. word part, group component?).

Thanks
Bob

Answer 1

I figured this out. Rather than expecting some from an Office library to do this I can do this myself. How? by isolating the text for a ballot office (in this case "Justice of the Supreme Court" and then processing the text using regular expressions.

Hope this helps someone in the future.