How to remove the first two paragraphs

[paulstgeorge]

I want to remove the first two paragraphs from each document in a folder of Word documents.

First I create an object of Document class

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document = Document()

and load the document.

I have tried (but failed) to find the paragraphs with variations of:

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document.Sections.get_Item(0).Paragraphs.get_Item(0)
document.Sections.get_Item(0).Paragraphs.get_Item(1)


Then I thought I would use 'Replace' to replace the paragraph with nothing.
Happy to use any approach that works.

[Lisa.Li]

Hello,

Thank you for your letter.
Please refer to the code below to delete them. If you have any other questions, you can provide your testing documents so that we can investigate more accurately.

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document = Document()
document.LoadFromFile(inputFile)
document.Sections.get_Item(0).Paragraphs.RemoveAt(0)
document.Sections.get_Item(0).Paragraphs.RemoveAt(1)
document.SaveToFile(outputFile, FileFormat.Docx)
document.Close()


Sincerely,
Lisa
E-iceblue support team

[paulstgeorge]

Thank you! Should it be this (see line 4) because after I have removed the first paragraph the next paragraph is now at index 0????

document = Document()
document.LoadFromFile(inputFile)
document.Sections.get_Item(0).Paragraphs.RemoveAt(0)
document.Sections.get_Item(0).Paragraphs.RemoveAt(0)
document.SaveToFile(outputFile, FileFormat.Docx)
document.Close()

[Lisa.Li]

Hello,

Thanks for your feedback.
Yes, your understanding is correct. You can directly execute it twice. If there are any issues with the specific document results, we need to further analyze based on the document.

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document = Document()
document.LoadFromFile(inputFile)
section = document.Sections.get_Item(0) 
for _ in range(2):
    section.Paragraphs.RemoveAt(0)     
document.SaveToFile(outputFile, FileFormat.Docx)
document.Close()


Sincerely,
Lisa
E-iceblue support team