Text

Text can be added by using addText and addTextRun methods. addText is used for creating simple paragraphs that only contain texts with the same style. addTextRun is used for creating complex paragraphs that contain text with different style (some bold, other italics, etc) or other elements, e.g. images or links. The syntaxes are as follow:

<?php

$section->addText($text, [$fontStyle], [$paragraphStyle]);
$textrun = $section->addTextRun([$paragraphStyle]);

• $text. Text to be displayed in the document.
• $fontStyle. See Styles > Font.
• $paragraphStyle. See Styles > Paragraph.

For available styling options, see Styles > Font and Styles > Paragraph.

If you want to enable track changes on added text you can mark it as INSERTED or DELETED by a specific user at a given time:

<?php

$text = $section->addText('Hello World!');
$text->setChanged(\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\ChangedElement::TYPE_INSERTED, 'Fred', (new \DateTime()));