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Replacing placeholders in a Word document that are split across runs requires a run-agnostic approach that detects and rebuilds the fragmented XML structures. This technique ensures replacements occur accurately across paragraphs, tables, headers, and footers.

Template replacement in python-docx often fails in headers and footers because naive text searches do not account for placeholders split across separate XML runs. A robust replacement technique must scan and rebuild these runs to successfully inject data.

Generating Word documents from a data source while preserving template formatting is possible by rebuilding runs without losing styles during replacement. This allows personalized letters and reports to maintain original styling across paragraphs and nested tables.

Automating contract assembly using Word templates and python-docx is best handled by a robust replacement mechanism that maps a data source to placeholders. This approach preserves formatting by accurately replacing values split across runs, tables, headers, and footers.

python-docx supports replacing text inside nested tables without breaking the layout when using a run-agnostic replacement method. This technique detects placeholders split across table cells and rebuilds the runs while preserving the original formatting and styles.

To map placeholders to values for Word document generation, you need a data source that pairs template keys with replacement values. This mapping is required by the python-docx library to perform automated placeholder replacements across the document.