Adjusting Document Page Layout

When creating a document, sometimes you may need to work in landscape orientation or require more margins.

A document's page layout helps enhance readability and clarity of the content.

With python-docx, you can easily adjust the page size, margins, orientation, and more using Python code.

In this lesson, we will learn how to adjust the page layout.

A section is a unit used to set up the layout of a document page.

In python-docx, the sections property is used to adjust attributes such as page size, margins, and orientation.

A document can consist of multiple sections, each with its own page setup.

To set the page orientation to portrait or landscape, use the orientation property.

In python-docx, you can set the orientation using the WD_ORIENTATION class.

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from docx.enum.section import WD_ORIENTATION

# Set orientation to landscape
section.orientation = WD_ORIENTATION.LANDSCAPE

This code sets the page to landscape orientation. The default document orientation is portrait.

To adjust the page size, use the page_width and page_height properties.

For example, to set the page size to A4 (21.0cm x 29.7cm), you can write the code as follows:

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from docx.shared import Cm

section = doc.sections[0]

section.page_width = Cm(21.0)
section.page_height = Cm(29.7)

You can set the page margins using the top_margin, bottom_margin, left_margin, and right_margin properties.

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section.top_margin = Cm(2.5)

section.bottom_margin = Cm(2.5)

section.left_margin = Cm(3.0)

section.right_margin = Cm(3.0)

This code sets the top and bottom margins to 2.5cm, and the left and right margins to 3.0cm.