Remove footers from word document in C#

There are up to three kinds of headers and footers on a word document (for first, even and odd pages) and Spire.Doc supports to insert footer and header to the word document in C#. In the following example, we will load a document with headers and footers, and we will remove all footers from all sections, but leaves headers.

Step 1: Create a new instance of word document and load the sample document from file.

Document doc = new Document();
doc.LoadFromFile("Sample.docx");

Step 2: Get the first section from file.

Section section = doc.Sections[0];

Step 3: Traverse the word document and clear all footers in different type.

foreach (Paragraph para in section.Paragraphs)
{
    foreach (DocumentObject obj in para.ChildObjects)
    {
        HeaderFooter footer;
        footer = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterFirstPage];
        if (footer != null)
            footer.ChildObjects.Clear();

        footer = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterOdd];
        if (footer != null)
            footer.ChildObjects.Clear();

        footer = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterEven];
        if (footer != null)
            footer.ChildObjects.Clear();
                          
    }

Step 4: Save the document to file.

doc.SaveToFile("Result.docx", FileFormat.Docx2013);

Full codes of removing footers but keeping the header on word document:

static void Main(string[] args)
{

    Document doc = new Document();
    doc.LoadFromFile("Sample.docx");

    Section section = doc.Sections[0];

    foreach (Paragraph para in section.Paragraphs)
    {
        foreach (DocumentObject obj in para.ChildObjects)
        {
            HeaderFooter footer;
            footer = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterFirstPage];
            if (footer != null)
                footer.ChildObjects.Clear();

            footer = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterOdd];
            if (footer != null)
                footer.ChildObjects.Clear();

            footer = section.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterEven];
            if (footer != null)
                footer.ChildObjects.Clear();
                              
        }
        
        doc.SaveToFile("Result.docx", FileFormat.Docx2013);


    }

Remove footers from word document in C#

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