Remove all headers and footers from a directory of documents

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1

Hello,

We needed to clear the headers and footers of a few hundred documents so i prepared this crude code snippet in ~15 minutes. Just wanted to share it incase any one looks for a quick fix like I did.

Aspose.Words.License license = new Aspose.Words.License();
license.SetLicense("ADD LICENSE HERE");

string baseDir = @"C:\DirectoryContainingDocs";
var files = Directory.GetFiles(baseDir, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

string outputBaseDir = @"C:\Output";
int loopIndex = 0;
foreach (var file in files)
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Processing {0} / {1}", loopIndex, files.Length));
    loopIndex++;
    int index = new List(file.ToCharArray()).LastIndexOf(’\’);
    string fileName = file.Substring(index + 1, file.Length - index - 1);
    string newDir = file.Replace(baseDir, outputBaseDir).Replace(fileName, string.Empty);
    Directory.CreateDirectory(newDir);

    Document doc = new Document(file);

    foreach (Section section in doc)
    {
        // Up to three different footers are possible in a section (for first, even and odd pages).
        // We check and delete all of them.
        HeaderFooter headerfooter;

        headerfooter = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterFirst];
        if (headerfooter != null)
            headerfooter.Remove();

        // Primary footer is the footer used for odd pages.
        headerfooter = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterPrimary];
        if (headerfooter != null)
            headerfooter.Remove();

        headerfooter = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterEven];
        if (headerfooter != null)
            headerfooter.Remove();

        headerfooter = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.HeaderFirst];
        if (headerfooter != null)
            headerfooter.Remove();

        // Primary footer is the footer used for odd pages.
        headerfooter = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.HeaderPrimary];
        if (headerfooter != null)
            headerfooter.Remove();

        headerfooter = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.HeaderEven];
        if (headerfooter != null)
            headerfooter.Remove();
    }

    doc.Save(newDir + fileName);
}
2

Hi there,

Thanks for sharing the code example. We always appreciate positive feedback from our customers. You may also remove header/footer from a section using Section.HeadersFooters.Clear method. Hope this helps you.

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "in.docx");
foreach (Section section in doc.Sections)
{
    section.HeadersFooters.Clear();
}