en Feature Overview

Feature Overview

This document provides a detailed overview of all features in the WordZero project, including implemented functionality and planned features.

✅ Implemented Features

Document Basic Operations

• Create new Word documents: Support for standard DOCX format creation
• Read and parse existing documents ✨ Major Enhancement
  • Dynamic element parsing: Support for paragraphs, tables, section properties, and other element types
  • Structured parsing: Maintain original order and hierarchy of document elements
  • Complete XML parsing: Stream-based parsing supporting complex nested structures
  • Error recovery: Intelligently skip unknown elements ensuring parsing stability
  • Performance optimization: Memory-friendly incremental parsing suitable for large documents
• Document saving and compression: Efficient OOXML packaging
• ZIP file handling and OOXML structure parsing: Complete Office format support

Text and Paragraph Operations

• Add and modify text content: Flexible text manipulation API
• Paragraph creation and management: Complete paragraph lifecycle management
• Text formatting: Complete support for font, size, color, bold, italic
• Paragraph alignment: Left, center, right, and justify alignment
• Line spacing and paragraph spacing: Precise spacing control
• First line indent and left/right indent: Complete indentation settings
• Mixed format text: Support for multiple formats within a single paragraph

Style Management System

• Predefined style library: 18 built-in Word styles
  • Heading styles (Heading1-Heading9) - Support for navigation pane recognition
  • Body text style (Normal)
  • Document title and subtitle (Title, Subtitle)
  • Quote style (Quote)
  • List paragraph style (ListParagraph)
  • Code-related styles (CodeBlock, CodeChar)
  • Character styles (Emphasis, Strong)
• Style inheritance mechanism: Complete style inheritance and property merging
• Custom styles: Quick creation and application of custom styles
• Style query API: Query by type, style validation, batch operations
• Quick application API: Convenient style operation interface

Page Settings ✨ New Feature

• Page size settings: A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5, and other standard sizes
• Custom page dimensions: Millimeter units, support for arbitrary dimensions
• Page orientation: Portrait/landscape
• Page margin settings: Top, bottom, left, right margins in millimeters
• Header/footer distance settings: Precise distance control
• Gutter width settings: Professional layout support
• Complete page settings API: Unified configuration interface
• Page settings validation and error handling: Robust parameter validation
• Page settings save and load support: Persistent configuration

Table Features

Table Basic Operations

• Table creation and initialization
  • Create tables with specified rows and columns
  • Set initial table data
  • Insert tables at specified document positions
  • Default table styling (following Word standards)
    • Default single-line borders (single border style)
    • Standard border thickness (4 * 1/8 points)
    • Auto-adjust layout (autofit)
    • Standard cell margins (108 dxa)
    • Support for style override and customization
• Table structure management
  • Insert rows (at specified position, end, beginning)
  • Delete rows (single row, multiple rows, specified range)
  • ✨ Fix: Cell merge misalignment after dynamic row insertion
    • Deep copy cell properties to avoid shared property pointers
    • Ensure cell independence for newly added rows
    • Maintain complete table structure consistency
• Table copy and cut: Complete table operation support
• Table delete and clear: Flexible cleanup operations

Cell Operations

• Cell content management
  • Set and get cell text
  • Rich text format support for cells
  • Clear and reset cell content
• Cell merging functionality
  • Horizontal merge (merge columns)
  • Vertical merge (merge rows)
  • Area merge (multiple rows and columns)
  • Unmerge operations
  • Merge status queries
• Cell formatting
  • Cell text formatting (font, size, color)
  • Cell alignment (horizontal, vertical alignment)
  • Cell text direction and rotation
  • Cell padding settings

Table Layout and Dimensions

• Table size control
  • Table total width settings (fixed width, relative width, auto width)
  • Column width settings (fixed width, relative width, auto adjust)
  • Row height settings (fixed height, minimum height, auto adjust)
  • Precise cell dimension control
• Table alignment and positioning
  • Table page alignment (left, center, right)
  • Table text wrapping settings
  • Table relative positioning
• Table pagination control
  • Table cross-page handling
  • Header row repeat display
  • Table page break control
  • Avoid page break row settings

Table Data Processing

• Data import/export
  • Two-dimensional array data binding
  • Extract table data as arrays
  • Batch data filling

Table Access and Queries

• Table search and positioning
  • Get tables by index
  • Get table position information
• Cell access interface
  • Access by row and column index
• Cell traversal iterator ✨ New Implementation
  • Cell iterator (CellIterator)
  • Sequential traversal of all cells
  • Iterator reset and position tracking
  • Iteration progress calculation
  • Cell information structure (CellInfo)
  • ForEach batch processing method
  • Traverse by row (ForEachInRow)
  • Traverse by column (ForEachInColumn)
  • Get cell range (GetCellRange)
  • Conditional cell search (FindCells)
  • Search cells by text (FindCellsByText)
  • Exact match and fuzzy match support

Table Styling and Appearance

• Table overall styling
  • Predefined table style templates
  • Custom table style creation
  • Table theme color application
  • Table style inheritance and override
• Table border settings
  • Outer border styles (line type, color, thickness)
  • Inner border styles (grid line settings)
  • Independent cell border settings
  • Partial border application (top, bottom, left, right)
  • Borderless table support
• Table background and filling
  • Table background color settings
  • Cell background color settings
  • Alternating row colors
  • Gradient background support (basic gradients)
  • Pattern fill support

Image Features

• Image insertion: Support for multiple insertion methods
• Image size adjustment: Precise dimension control
• Image positioning: Flexible positioning options
• Multiple image format support: JPG, PNG, GIF, and other mainstream formats

Advanced Features ✨ Implemented

• Headers and Footers ✨ New Implementation
  • Default header and footer settings
  • Different headers/footers for first page
  • Different headers/footers for odd/even pages
  • Page numbers in headers/footers
  • Header/footer formatting support
  • Header/footer text content settings
  • Header/footer reference and relationship management
• Document Properties ✨ New Implementation
  • Title, author, subject settings
  • Keywords, description, category settings
  • Creation time, modification time management
  • Document statistics (word count, paragraph count, etc.)
  • Auto-update statistics information
• Lists and Numbering ✨ New Implementation
  • Unordered lists (multiple bullet types: dots, hollow circles, squares, dashes, arrows)
  • Ordered lists (numbers, letters, Roman numerals)
  • Multi-level list support (up to 9 levels)
  • Custom list styles
  • List numbering restart
  • Multi-level list batch creation
  • List indentation level control
• Table of Contents Generation ✨ New Implementation
  • Auto-generate table of contents
  • TOC entries based on heading styles
  • TOC level control (1-9 levels)
  • Page number display and hyperlink support
  • TOC update functionality
  • Heading support with bookmarks
  • Custom TOC styling
  • Heading statistics and list functionality
• Footnotes and Endnotes ✨ New Implementation
  • Add and manage footnotes
  • Add and manage endnotes
  • Multiple numbering format support (numbers, letters, Roman numerals, symbols)
  • Delete and update footnotes/endnotes
  • Custom footnote configuration
  • Footnote position settings (page bottom, below text, section end, document end)
  • Footnote restart rules (continuous, restart each section, restart each page)
  • Footnote count statistics
• Structured Document Tags (SDT) ✨ New Implementation
  • Create TOC SDT structure
  • SDT properties and content management
  • SDT placeholder and document part support
  • TOC entry SDT nesting

Template Features ✨ New Implementation

• Template Creation and Management
  • Template definition structure
  • Variable placeholder system
  • Template validation and error handling
  • Template metadata management
• Template Processing Engine
  • Variable replacement and rendering
  • Conditional logic support (if/else)
  • Loop iteration support (range/for)
  • Nested template support
  • Function and filter system
  • Template inheritance mechanism
• Dynamic Content Generation
  • Data binding and injection
  • Dynamic table generation
  • Dynamic list creation
  • Conditional content display
  • Multi-level data structure support
• Template Operations
  • Load templates from files
  • Save processed templates
  • Template format conversion
  • Template optimization and caching
• Image Placeholder Templates ✨ Latest Implementation
  • Image placeholder syntax: {{#image imageName}} support
  • Image data binding (file paths, binary data)
  • Complete style configuration support (size, alignment, text wrapping, etc.)
  • Full compatibility with existing image operations
  • Alt text and title support
  • String template and document template dual support
  • Image configuration inherits existing ImageConfig system
  • Mixed content template support (images with conditionals and loops)
  • Image data management API (SetImage, SetImageFromData, etc.)
  • Automatic image placeholder recognition and processing

Markdown Conversion ✨ New Implementation

• Markdown to Word Conversion
  • Complete Markdown syntax support
  • Heading conversion (H1-H6 to Heading1-Heading6)
  • Text formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough, code)
  • List conversion (ordered and unordered)
  • Table conversion with styling
  • Code block conversion
  • Quote block conversion
  • Link and image processing
  • Line break and paragraph handling
• Word to Markdown Export
  • Style-based conversion
  • Table structure preservation
  • List hierarchy maintenance
  • Format retention
  • Image extraction and linking
• Advanced Conversion Features
  • Custom style mapping
  • Conversion options and configuration
  • Format validation
  • Error handling and recovery

🚧 Planned Features

Enhanced Document Features

• Track Changes: Document revision tracking
• Comments: Add and manage document comments
• Document Protection: Password protection and editing restrictions
• Digital Signatures: Document signing support

Advanced Text Features

• Find and Replace: Text search and replacement functionality
• Spelling Check: Spell checking integration
• Text Boxes: Floating text box support
• Drop Caps: Decorative first letter support

Enhanced Table Features

• Table Formulas: Calculation support in tables
• Table Sorting: Sort table data
• Table Charts: Convert table data to charts
• Advanced Table Styles: More predefined table styles

Media and Graphics

• Chart Support: Insert and manage charts
• Shape Drawing: Basic shape insertion
• SmartArt: Diagram and flowchart support
• Watermarks: Text and image watermarks

Layout and Design

• Columns: Multi-column text layout
• Text Frames: Advanced text positioning
• Form Fields: Interactive form elements
• Mail Merge: Data source integration

Advanced Features

• Macros: VBA macro support
• Custom XML: Custom XML data integration
• Content Controls: Rich content control elements
• Document Automation: Batch processing capabilities

Integration Features

• Cloud Storage: Integration with cloud services
• Export Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF export
• Database Integration: Direct database connectivity
• Web Services: REST API integration

📊 Implementation Status

Core Features: ✅ Complete

• Document operations
• Text and paragraph handling
• Style management
• Page settings

Table Features: ✅ Complete

• Basic table operations
• Advanced cell manipulation
• Table styling and formatting
• Table iterators and queries

Advanced Features: ✅ Complete

• Headers and footers
• Lists and numbering
• Table of contents
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Document properties
• Template system
• Markdown conversion

Future Enhancements: 🚧 In Planning

• Track changes and collaboration
• Enhanced media support
• Advanced layout features
• Integration capabilities

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• 📊 Complete Excel Support: All modern Excel formats including XLAM/XLSM/XLSX/XLTM/XLTX
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Combined Usage Example

// Create comprehensive reports - Word + Excel
import (
    "github.com/ZeroHawkeye/wordZero/pkg/document"
    "github.com/xuri/excelize/v2"
)

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Feature Comparison

Feature Area	WordZero	Excelize
Document Type	Word documents (.docx)	Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx, etc.)
Core Strengths	Text formatting, layout, templates	Data processing, charts, calculations
Use Cases	Reports, documents, templates	Data analysis, spreadsheets, charts
Combined Value	Complete Office document processing solution

Complete Document Processing Ecosystem

• WordZero: Word document creation, editing, template processing
• Excelize: Excel spreadsheets, data analysis, charts
• Combined Use: Build complete enterprise-level document automation solutions

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This feature overview is regularly updated as new features are implemented. For the latest information, please check the Changelog and GitHub Issues.