How to apply background color to footer and add logo in header in a Word document?

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 apply background color to footer and add logo in header in a Word document using C#.

To apply a background color to the footer, a rectangle shape is added as a background, containing text and a page number for proper formatting.

Steps to apply background color to footer and add logo in header in a Word document:

1. Create a new .NET Core 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
   C#

using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO; 

4. Use the following code example to apply background color to footer and add logo in header in a Word document.
   C#

using (FileStream docStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
   // Load the Word document from the file stream.
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(docStream, FormatType.Docx))
   {
       // Add header and footer to the document.
       AddHeaderFooter(document);
       // Save the modified document to an output file.
       using (FileStream outputStream1 = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
       {
           document.Save(outputStream1, FormatType.Docx);
       }
   }
}

5. Use the following code example to add headers and footers to all sections of the document…
   C#

static void AddHeaderFooter(WordDocument document)
{
   for (int i = 0; i < document.Sections.Count; i++)
   {
       WSection section = document.Sections[i];
       IWParagraph headerParagraph = section.HeadersFooters.FirstPageHeader.AddParagraph();
       GetHeaderContent(headerParagraph);
       IWParagraph headerOddParagraph = section.HeadersFooters.OddHeader.AddParagraph();
       GetHeaderContent(headerOddParagraph);
       IWParagraph evenParagraph = section.HeadersFooters.EvenHeader.AddParagraph();
       GetHeaderContent(evenParagraph);
       IWParagraph footerParagraph = section.HeadersFooters.FirstPageFooter.AddParagraph();
       GetFooterContent(footerParagraph);
       IWParagraph footerOddParagraph = section.HeadersFooters.OddFooter.AddParagraph();
       GetFooterContent(footerOddParagraph);
       IWParagraph footerEvenParagraph = section.HeadersFooters.EvenFooter.AddParagraph();
       GetFooterContent(footerEvenParagraph);
   }
} 

6. Use the following code example to adds an image to the header paragraph.
   C#

static void GetHeaderContent(IWParagraph headerParagraph)
{
   // Open the image file stream.
   FileStream imageStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Picture.png"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

   // Append the image to the header paragraph.
   IWPicture picture = headerParagraph.AppendPicture(imageStream);

   // Set image positioning and formatting properties.
   picture.TextWrappingStyle = TextWrappingStyle.InFrontOfText;
   picture.VerticalOrigin = VerticalOrigin.Margin;
   picture.VerticalPosition = -45; // Adjust vertical position
   picture.HorizontalOrigin = HorizontalOrigin.Column;
   picture.HorizontalPosition = 30f; // Adjust horizontal position
   picture.WidthScale = 50; // Scale image width
   picture.HeightScale = 40; // Scale image height
} 

7. Use the following code example to adds a styled footer with a background color and page number.
   C#

static void GetFooterContent(IWParagraph footerParagraph)
{
   // Create a rectangle shape in the footer for background styling.
   Shape rectangleShape = footerParagraph.AppendShape(AutoShapeType.Rectangle, 700, 50);
   // Set rectangle shape properties (position, alignment, wrapping, color).
   rectangleShape.WrapFormat.TextWrappingStyle = TextWrappingStyle.InFrontOfText;
   rectangleShape.HorizontalAlignment = ShapeHorizontalAlignment.Left;
   rectangleShape.VerticalAlignment = ShapeVerticalAlignment.Bottom;
   rectangleShape.HorizontalOrigin = HorizontalOrigin.Page;
   rectangleShape.VerticalOrigin = VerticalOrigin.Page;
   rectangleShape.FillFormat.Color = Syncfusion.Drawing.Color.LightBlue; // Set background color
   // Add a paragraph inside the rectangle for text.
   footerParagraph = rectangleShape.TextBody.AddParagraph();
   footerParagraph.AppendText("Adventure Works Cycles");
   footerParagraph.ParagraphFormat.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
   // Add a right-aligned tab stop for page number formatting.
   footerParagraph.ParagraphFormat.Tabs.AddTab(523f, TabJustification.Right, TabLeader.NoLeader);
   // Append page number fields.
   footerParagraph.AppendText("\t"); // Insert tab space
   footerParagraph.AppendField("Page", FieldType.FieldPage); // Current page number
   footerParagraph.AppendText(" of ");
   footerParagraph.AppendField("NumPages", FieldType.FieldNumPages); // Total number of pages
} 

You can download a complete working sample to apply background color to footer and add logo in header in a Word document from the 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 Word 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

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