Seaching and replacing in MS Word with regex

[kvprasoon]

Hi folks,

I’m new to this forum and to powershell.

I have a Word document that needs to be transformed with pandoc to an asciidoc document. However, the cross references are not set. The word document somewhat looks like:

1.2.3.4  Chaptername
…..
1.3   Chaptername

What I would like to do is to find each chapter numbering via regex and replace or add something to make it look like this:

1.2.3.4  Chaptername [[Chaptername_1.2.3.4]]
…..
1.3   Chaptername [[Chaptername_1.3]]

I was able to get the things correctly, however, I cannot replace it within the existing word document. Here is a code snippet:

PowerShell

$application = New-Object -comobject word.application $application.visible = $True  #just to check what is happening $document = $application.documents.open("document.docx") $paras = $document.Paragraphs foreach($line in $paras) { if ($line.Range.ListFormat.ListString -match '\d.{1,14}\d') { $numbering = $matches[0] $line -replace ($numbering + " " +$line.Range.Text + " [[Chaptername_"+$numbering +"]]") }

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$application = New-Object -comobject word.application $application.visible = $True  #just to check what is happening $document = $application.documents.open("document.docx") $paras = $document.Paragraphs foreach($line in $paras) { if ($line.Range.ListFormat.ListString -match '\d.{1,14}\d') {   $numbering = $matches[0] $line -replace ($numbering + " " +$line.Range.Text + " [[Chaptername_"+$numbering +"]]")   }

Obviously, the way I run through the document does not allow to use Set-Content and Find.Execute () function does not seem to be appropriate for what I want to do. How can I replace the lines in the document.

Any hint/help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Wulf

• This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by kvprasoon. Reason: Code formatting

[kvprasoon]

I never used this module, but you can give PSWriteWord PowerShell module ashot.
https://evotec.xyz/hub/scripts/pswriteword-powershell-module/

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by kvprasoon.

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