Overview

I had the opportunity to convert tabular information into a vertical writing format in Microsoft Word, so this is a memo.

Before conversion

After conversion

This uses specified templates and the “Kanjize” library for mutual conversion between numbers and Kanji numerals.

Creating Microsoft Word Files with python-docx

First, create a Microsoft Word template file as follows. While using the specified layout, place {<variable_name>} in the parts where values should be changed.

Then, create a JSON file with values corresponding to the variable names used in the template above.

Then, by running the following Python script, you can create a Microsoft Word file based on the specified format.

Number to Kanji Numeral Conversion

When creating the above input JSON file, it was necessary to convert numbers to Kanji numerals.

Example: 2600000 -> 二百六十万

For this conversion, the following library was used.

https://github.com/nagataaaas/Kanjize

By running the following, data managed as numbers can be converted to Kanji numerals.

Summary

We hope this is helpful when creating Microsoft Word files.