Getting text style from docx using Apache poi

Question

I\'m trying to get the style information from an MS docx file, I have no problem writing file content with added styles like bold, italic. font size etc, but reading the fil

Answer 1

I found a very nice way to copy styles from one document to another. It is not as direct as I would have hoped but it works.

1. Rename the source word document to type zip
2. Extract the contents
3. Copy styles.xml into a string constant or read the file

4. Copy the styles into your output document with the following code

   public void copyStylesXml(String stylesXmlString) {
      try {
         CTStyles ctStyle = CTStyles.Factory.parse(stylesXmlString);
         XWPFStyles styles = getDoc().createStyles();
         styles.setStyles(ctStyle);
      } catch (Exception e) {
         log.warn(e, e);
      }
   }
   

The same approach works for copying list formats