docx center text in table cells

Question

So I am starting to use pythons docx library. Now, I create a table with multiple rows, and only 2 columns, it looks like this:

Now, I would like the text in those cells to be centered horizontally. How can I do this? I've searched through docx API documentation but I only saw information about aligning paragraphs.

Answer 1

There is a code to do this by setting the alignment as you create cells.

doc=Document()
table = doc.add_table(rows=0, columns=2)

row=table.add_row().cells
p=row[0].add_paragraph('left justified text')
p.alignment=WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.LEFT
p=row[1].add_paragraph('right justified text')
p.alignment=WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.RIGHT

code by: bnlawrence

and to align text to the center just change:

p.alignment=WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.CENTER

solution found here: Modify the alignment of cells in a table