from docxtpl import * tpl = DocxTemplate("test_files/escape_tpl.docx") context = {'myvar': R('"less than" must be escaped : <, this can be done with RichText() or R()'), 'myescvar':'It can be escaped with a "|e" jinja filter in the template too : < ', 'nlnp' : R('Here is a multiple\nlines\nstring\aand some\aother\aparagraphs')} tpl.render(context) tpl.save("test_files/escape.docx")