How to remove header and footer in ASP.NET Core Word using C#?

Syncfusion® Essential® DocIO is a .NET Word Library used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can remove header and footer for a particular section in a Word document using C#.

Steps to remove header and footer for a particular section in a Word document using C#:

1. Create a new C# .NET Console application project.
   
   
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.
   
   

3. Include the following namespaces in Program.cs file.
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using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO; 

4. To remove the header and footer for a particular section in a Word document, first clear the child entities of the header and footer, then add an empty paragraph. Otherwise, the previous section’s header and footer values will be retained. Use the following code snippet in Program.cs file.
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//Open an existing document
using (FileStream inputStream = new FileStream(@"../../../Data/Template.docx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(inputStream, FormatType.Docx))
   {
       //Get the section
       WSection section = document.Sections[2];

       //Remove the first page header
       section.HeadersFooters.FirstPageHeader.ChildEntities.Clear();
       section.HeadersFooters.FirstPageHeader.AddParagraph();
       //Remove the first page footer
       section.HeadersFooters.FirstPageFooter.ChildEntities.Clear();
       section.HeadersFooters.FirstPageFooter.AddParagraph();

       //Remove the odd header
       section.HeadersFooters.OddHeader.ChildEntities.Clear();
       section.HeadersFooters.OddHeader.AddParagraph();
       //Remove the odd footer
       section.HeadersFooters.OddFooter.ChildEntities.Clear();
       section.HeadersFooters.OddFooter.AddParagraph();

       //Remove the even header
       section.HeadersFooters.EvenHeader.ChildEntities.Clear();
       section.HeadersFooters.EvenHeader.AddParagraph();
       //Remove the even footer
       section.HeadersFooters.EvenFooter.ChildEntities.Clear();
       section.HeadersFooters.EvenFooter.AddParagraph();

       //Save the Word document
       using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(@"../../../Output.docx", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
       {
           document.Save(outputStream, FormatType.Docx);
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to remove header and footer for a particular section in a Word document from GitHub.

Take a moment to peruse the documentation where you can find basic Word document processing options along with the features like mail merge, merge, split, and compare documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly, the PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to remove header and footer in ASP.NET Core Word using C#.

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