test post: editing rows and columns of tables

[Jeremy Skog]

Hello,

I've been experimenting with the putdocx command in Stata 15. I read through the documentation and didn't notice a way to apply formatting to an entire row or column of a table (for example, putting the first row in bold). I can do this with a program, but that seems inefficient. Any suggestions?

sysuse auto, replace

capture program drop shadeheader
program define shadeheader
   syntax name, Col(int)
   forval i = 1/`col' {
      putdocx table `namelist'(1,`i'), bold
   }
end

putdocx begin, pagesize(letter)

statsby Total=r(N) Average=r(mean) Max=r(max) Min=r(min), by(foreign): summarize mpg
rename foreign Origin

putdocx paragraph
putdocx table tbl1 = data("Origin Total Average Max Min"), varnames border(start, nil) border(insideV, nil) border(end, nil)
shadeheader tbl1, col(5)

putdocx save Test.docx, replace