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How do i change the styling of a heading 1, heading 2, etc?
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Posted by AndrewCooper  · 10-06-2016 - 10:06

I've got a Table of Contents.  The table is populated by the different Heading Level styles.  I can use "Heading1PHPDOCX" as the pStyle to get the TOC to populate correctly.  However, I need the styling of the Heading1PHPDOCX to be different.  How do I change the look of that particular style?  I see how to create styles.  How do you edit existing styles?

Andrew

Posted by admin  · 10-06-2016 - 13:03

Hello,

The current version of phpdocx doesn't support changing existing styles, only create, add and import them. You can use a custom DOCX as base template with the styles you need.

DOCXCustomizer, available in Premium licenses since phpdocx 7.0, allows to change existing styles on-the-fly.

The new DOCXPath (http://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/introduction/docxpath) allows to change the body content dynamically, and in the future this same class will be used to support changing other contents such as styles, headers, footers...

Regards.

Posted by AndrewCooper  · 10-06-2016 - 13:48

Okay, I don't mind creating new Styles.  That's fine.  How do I tell the TOC to look at my NewStyle1 as the Level 1 TOC entries?  That's my real issue.  I can't use the existing Heading 1 style because I need it to look different.

Andrew

Posted by admin  · 10-06-2016 - 14:31

Hello,

The addTablesOfContent method allows to set a paragraph style and custom styles, or even import an existing TOC style from a file.

And using the headingLevel property you can a text as content to appear in the TOC. This text can be styled as needed.

Regards.