How to remove Section Break while joining Documents using .NET

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1

Hello,

I have Aspose Total.NET enterprise license (Aspose.Word v20.12.0)

I am joining 3 word docs together.
Each doc goes through some mail merge and then they are joined together.

  1. Header doc - is only header, no footer
  2. Summary doc - no header, no footer
  3. PayBill doc - no header, no footer

the problem is that there is a Section Break created on first page - I don’t know why.
I do not want this Section break.
How can i prevent it, or how do i remove it after the fact.

here is the code…
Document docHeader = new Document(“Header.docx”);
Document docSummary = new Document(“Summary.docx”);
Document docPayBill = new Document(“PayBill.docx”);

docHeader.FirstSection.PageSetup.SectionStart = SectionStart.Continuous;

docHeader.AppendDocument(docSummary, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);

// Start on New Page…
docPayBill.FirstSection.PageSetup.SectionStart = SectionStart.NewPage;
docHeader.AppendDocument(docPayBill, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);

docHeader.Save(“finalDoc.docx”);
see attached sample docs.

word section break issue.zip (206.3 KB)
Thanks

2

@tony.woods.bell.ca

In your case, we suggest you please use DocumentBuilder.InsertDocument method to insert the document as shown below. Hope this helps you.

Document docHeader = new Document("Header.docx");
Document docSummary = new Document("Summary.docx");
Document docPayBill = new Document("PayBill.docx");

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(docHeader);
builder.InsertDocument(docSummary, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
builder.InsertDocument(docPayBill, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);

docHeader.Save("finalDoc.docx");

If you do not want to use DocumentBuilder.InsertDocument method, you can remove the section breaks from the final document using following method.

private static void RemoveSectionBreaks(Document doc)
{
    for (int i = doc.Sections.Count - 2; i >= 0; i--)
    {
        doc.LastSection.PrependContent(doc.Sections[i]);
        doc.Sections[i].Remove();
    }
}
3

In documentBuilder…

What if I want to insert a document but it MUST start on a new page.
How do i do that?

Nitin

4

Hi tahir,

i tried the DocumentBuilder code,
but no headers show on any of the pages.

5

@tony.woods.bell.ca

You can use DocumentBuilder.InsertBreak method to insert page break before inserting document.

builder.InsertBreak(BreakType.PageBreak);

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6

Hello Tahir,

I created the sample project and when I ran it, I did not see the issue anymore.
So I checked my the code in my real project and identified the error in a particular
section (which had a section break) and was able to remove that.

Thank you once again for a great product and support.