"Fill a document with a batch of data" Word Template With a Table

Questions
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:bullseye: What is your goal?

fill in a table inside a word template

:thinking: What is the problem & what have you tried?

I can get data into fields {{fieldname}} but after hours of formatting the table I cannot get anything into a table.

:clipboard: Error messages or input/output bundles

No Errors, just blank table

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I wrote a description and nothing showed up on my post. This forum is confusing. Anyway. I have been trying for hours to get a table to populate using the “Fill a document with batch of data” and I keep getting blank tables. The issue may be the Word Template. It is taking hours out of my day trying to find answers, and the template itself may be the cause. Lots of help here for make modules, nothing about how the word template should be configured. Someone please help! I need this Table to be configured so it will receive the Data. Thank-you!

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Hey Thomas!

Could you share here the link or screenshot of the scenario for better understanding?

-John

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Here is a screenshot of the word template and make.

20260603081927_CreatePurchaseRequest(DW)Make—Work—_Mozill
20260603081927_CreatePurchaseRequest(DW)Make—Work—_Mozill1873×252 50.9 KB

20260603081712_PURCHASEORDER.docx-_Word
20260603081712_PURCHASEORDER.docx-_Word1872Ă—797 31 KB

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Hey Thomas,

you don’t fill tables from templates in word. After the document is created from the template, you can insert a table using this.

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Thanks for the reply. unfortunately I know nothing about C# and cannot use the information you shared. This information as well as multiple forum posts (Microsoft Word Templates - Apps Documentation) indicate make should be able to fill in the table. I am sure something is wrong with my document. Everything in make runs fine, and I get a document, the Table just comes out blank.

Thanks anyway.

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Is the table static or dynamic?
If its static with the same amount of cells each time, then just add a tag in each cell and prefill that from the template.
But if its dynamic, then no chance, you will have to build the table inside a generic API call module and send it that way.

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So this Make documentation is completely false? Microsoft Word Templates - Apps Documentation

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If I were you I would try an AI module or an AI agent and get it produce a Json of the fields and then map that to table column IDs if applicable in your scenario.
Also it’s worthy to note that make.com doesn’t bring in the entire possible interfaces of these applicable programmable interfaces (APIs).

Make.com documents what it brings in and how it’s intended to be used Which is often different from the API platform. You use case is slightly and outlier and sadly you haven’t given more enough context.

What business problem are you exactly trying to solve? One thing a lot of builders on make fail to understand is that a lot of differentautomation flow options can produce same results and it’s completely okay to express other possibilities.