Lock Headers and footers in word

[mpinnamaneni]

Hi,

We have custom document properties inserted into the word (2013 & 2016) header & footer. We want to lock it down so end users don’t accidentally delete them because we are updating them through out the approval process. I’d there a way we can lock the headers and footers using ASPOSE but still able to update the properties programmatically?

Thanks and appreciate it

Mahesh

[tahir.manzoor]

Hi Mahesh,

Thanks for your inquiry. EditableRangeStart class represents a start of an editable range in a Word document. EditableRangeEnd class represents an end of an editable range in a Word document.

A complete editable range in a Word document consists of a EditableRangeStart and a matching EditableRangeEnd with the same Id. EditableRangeStart and EditableRangeEnd are just markers inside a document that specify where the editable range starts and ends.

Following code example shows how to protect header and footer of first section of document. Hope this helps you.

<pre style=“background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: “Courier New”; font-size: 9pt;”>Document doc = new Document(MyDir + “in.docx”);
doc.protect(ProtectionType.READ_ONLY);

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.moveToParagraph(0, 0);
builder.startEditableRange();
builder.moveToParagraph(doc.getFirstSection().getBody().getParagraphs().getCount() -1, -1);
builder.endEditableRange();

doc.save(MyDir + “Out.docx”);