Microsoft Word Template Integromat (Make)

[Trung_Nguyen]

I am trying to generate an Invoice for line items in Airtable. New Google docs creation automation is very helpful but it lacks basic formatting functions.

So, I use Microsoft Word module in Make but do not know what format I should use in this “Raw values” field. Could anyone please give me an example?

I know this is not really a Airtable question but documentation on this module is quite limited.

My Word templates :
{{invoice_number}}-{{invoice_date}}
{{buyer}}

{{#details}} {{item_code}} {{item_description}} {{unit_price}} {{/details}}

Thanks in advance!

[ScottWorld]

Yeah, Make.com has some of the worst help documentation that I’ve ever seen, and their support is slow.

I don’t know if anybody here will be able to answer your question since I haven’t heard of anybody in these forums using Make with Microsoft Word, so I would recommend opening up a support ticket with Make and reporting back here with whatever they say. That will help future people solve this same problem.

Alternatively:

1. Make.com also works with Google Docs, which might be easier to figure out.
2. On2Air: Actions works with Google Docs, and has great documentation and support.
3. If you only need to generate PDF files instead of Word files, you may want to explore DocuMint, which has a fantastic document template builder and also has great documentation and support.

[Trung_Nguyen]

Thank you Scott,

I will submit a support ticket as you suggested. It seems that Microsoft Word is rarely used in the automation workflows

[Christophe_RENA]

Hi Trung,
I was too looking for more information on the Word module for Make just to see if I can achieve more than today.
When I started in July I found it very undocumented. I managed to find the right information from a Youtube tutorial. It is with Excel not Airtable, but it gives good stuff on the Word module.
I finally added a pdf.co module after the Word module to convert word in PDF.
https://youtu.be/AkV1MDUKrQA

I hope this helps although it’s been some time from your initial question.
Christophe

[Trung_Nguyen]

Thank you, Christophe!

The video is really helpful. I learned something new from it. I managed to solve the problem. It took a senior technician from Make to make it work

[ScottWorld]

Please post a screenshot of how you solved this, so future people can learn how to do this.

[Trung_Nguyen]

This is similar to the example of Make’s documentation:

My scenario:

Word module setup:

And this is JSON string:

{
    "values": [{
            "key": "name",
            "value": "Trung Nguyen",
            "valueType": "value"
        },
        {
            "key": "contact",
            "value":[{
	            "entry": [
	            	{
	            		"key": "supplier_name",
	            		"value": "Test",
	            		"valueType": "value"
	            	},
	            	{
	            		"key": "email",
	            		"value": "test@gmail.com",
	            		"valueType": "value"            	
	        		},
	        		{
	            		"key": "phone",
	            		"value": "0123456789",
	            		"valueType": "value"        		
	        		}
	            ]},
	            {"entry": [
	            	{
	            		"key": "supplier_name",
	            		"value": "Another Test",
	            		"valueType": "value"
	            	},
	            	{
	            		"key": "email",
	            		"value": "another@gmail.com",
	            		"valueType": "value"            	
	        		},
	        		{
	            		"key": "phone",
	            		"value": "9876543210",
	            		"valueType": "value"        		
	        		}
	            ]}
	        ],
            "valueType": "loop-section"        
        }
    ]
}

[ScottWorld]

This is fantastic information, @Trung_Nguyen!! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: :raised_hands:

Thank you so much for posting all of this! This will be invaluable information to help many people in the future!! :blush: :sparkles:

I haven’t yet used the Microsoft Word modules in Make, so this might help me in the future as well! :slightly_smiling_face:

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[Christophe_RENA]

Hi Trung,

I am happy to help :blush:

In fact I got into sending a ticket about the Word module some days ago. Indeed the support is quite basic. Well, as I am still in a free plan, I cannot really complain.

Yet, no one explained clearly the functioning (and the UI programming) of the Condition choice.

Anyhow. Keep well.

Christophe

[Patrice_Dornon]

Hello,

I wonder what you give to the “parse json” module as input?

Thanks for your feedback.

P.S.: I try to reproduce the same use case, and I get stuck. My scenario, does not give me a table but as many files as rows…