Changing Captions in Word using Matlab

Hello All,

1. Does any one know how to change the Font and Size of the caption to tables in word using Matlab commands?

I use

actx_Report = actxserver('Word.Application');

actx_Report.ActiveDocument.Tables.Add(actx_Report.Selection.Range,5,7,1,1);

to generate the table.

and

actx_Report.Selection.InsertCaption('Table', [' : Absolute Mean Error', num2str(j)], '', 0, false);

to insert captions.

Answer 1

[Dave!]

Hello,

I know this is an older question, but here is a workaround that I have found handy.

Since you have access to the Styles of a document, I find it easier to create an absolutely empty file that has all Styles in it that I want. For instance, I set the Caption style to be bold, centered, non-italics, and the font size that I want. When I want to create a new Word file from MATLAB, I simply make a copy of my template file and open that rather than open a brand new document that will be of Word's default template style.

Then, when I actxserver.Selection.InsertCaption, it is already formatted how I want.

Word also has a set of Table styles that you can apply:

tbl = actXObj.ActiveDocument.Tables.Add(actXObj.Selection.Range, nRows, nCols, 1, 1);
tbl.ApplyStyleDirectFormatting('NameOfCustomTableStyle');