Batch edit .docx files

Background

There are times where you kept documents as seperate files, however you received notification that the Date format for all the document were to be changed from dd-mm-yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd. Or something like that, check out the guide below on how I used python to help solve this issue

Setup

1. Install the package !pip install python-docx
2. Use glob to read the files
3. Open said document
4. Loop thru all the paragraph and replace as neccessary
5. Save document

Code

from glob import glob
from docx import Document

fl = glob('{YOUR_DIRECTORY}/*.docx')
for f in fl:
    doc = Document(f)
    for p in doc.paragraphs:
        # Here you add your logic,
        # for example I replace the G123 keyword to G234
        if 'G123' in p.text:
            p.text = p.text.replace('G123','G234')
    doc.save(f)