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Hello,

You need to use a multidimensional array:

$textData->addText(array(array('text' => $bullet['text']['data'], 'underline' => 'single')));

Or a string:

$textData->addText($bullet['text']['data'], array('underline' => 'single'));

But not a single array as you are using to add text to the WordFragment. A multidimensional array is needed to be able to add texts with different properties:

$textData->addText(
  array(
    array('text' => $bullet['text']['data'], 'underline' => 'single'),
    array('text' => ' Other text', 'bold' => true),
  )
);

Regards.

One last question,

If i am adding 

$docx->addList($bullets,3);

how do i increase linespacing of the list?

Hello,

You need to use a custom paragraph style or a custom style list imported from an existing DOCX , use an existing style in a template or create a custom paragraph style using createParagraphStyle.

This is a simple sample of a custom paragraph style created dynamically to set custom spacings:

// style options
$style = array(
    'lineSpacing' => 480,
    'spacingTop' => 360,
    'spacingBottom' => 360,
);
$docx->createParagraphStyle('myStyle', $style);

$item1 = new WordFragment($docx);
$item1->addText('Line 1', array('pStyle' => 'myStyle'));
$item2 = new WordFragment($docx);
$item2->addText('Line 2', array('pStyle' => 'myStyle'));
$item3 = new WordFragment($docx);
$item3->addText('Line 3', array('pStyle' => 'myStyle'));

$itemList = array(
    $item1,
    $item2,
    $item3,
);

$docx->addList($itemList, 1, array('useWordFragmentStyles' => true));

Regards.

Thanks for your example but I am not able to get the importListStyle function to work. I created a new file called customStyles.docx and created a new list style within it called "RAMList1". However, whenever I call $docx->parseStyles I do not see the new style so I'm not able to obtain the id. Do you have an example of how to create a new style template containing custom List styles?

I then tried to use importStyles with the code below but this does not work either.

  $docx->importStyles(WORD_TEMPLATE_PATH.'customStyles.docx', 'merge', array('RAMList1'));
                    
  $itemList = array(
                    'Line 1',
                    'Line 2',
                    'Line 3',
                    'Line 4',
                    'Line 5'
    );

   $docx->addList($itemList, 'RAMList1');

Any suggestions?

I understand we can we use createParagraphStyle and then create a WordFragment with a 'pStyle' for every bullet but I'd like to avoid doing this as our arrays of data have already been built and we have a ton of different styles to apply within the document we are building. Creating and importing a document with custom styles would really suit our needs best.

Thanks in advance!

Hello,

In the examples folder included in the package of the license you can find examples of how to use importListStyle, importStyles and parseStyles methods. You can find them in the examples/LayoutAndGeneral folder.

To import a list style you need to use the importListStyle method (https://www.phpdocx.com/api-documentation/layout-and-general/import-list-style-from-a-Word-document-with-PHP). For example:

$docx->importListStyle('template.docx', '1', 'myliststyle');

$itemList = array(
    'Line 1',
    'Line 2',
    'Line 3',
    'Line 4',
    'Line 5'
);

$docx->addList($itemList, 'myliststyle');

If the style is not applied using your custom template, please check that you are setting the correct list ID.

Regards.