Unlink Headers Footers

This tutorial will guide you through the process of using the Unlink Headers Footers feature of Aspose.Words for .NET. This feature allows you to join and append Word documents while unlinking headers and footers from the source document.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

  1. Aspose.Words for .NET installed. You can download it from the Aspose website or install it via NuGet.
  2. Visual Studio or any other C# development environment.

Step 1: Initialize the Document Directories

First, you need to set the path to your document directory. Modify the value of the dataDir variable to the path where your documents are located.

string dataDir = "YOUR DOCUMENT DIRECTORY";

Step 2: Load the Source and Destination Documents

Next, you need to load the source and destination documents using the Aspose.Words Document class. Update the file names in the Document constructor according to your document names.

Document srcDoc = new Document(dataDir + "Document source.docx");
Document dstDoc = new Document(dataDir + "Northwind traders.docx");

To unlink the headers and footers in the source document from continuing the destination document’s headers and footers, you need to set the LinkToPrevious property of the HeadersFooters collection in the first section of the source document to false.

srcDoc.FirstSection.HeadersFooters.LinkToPrevious(false);

Step 4: Append the Source Document to the Destination Document

Now, you can append the source document to the destination document using the AppendDocument method of the Document class. The ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting parameter ensures that the source formatting is preserved during the append operation.

dstDoc.AppendDocument(srcDoc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);

Step 5: Save the Final Document

Finally, save the merged document with the Unlink Headers Footers feature enabled using the Save method of the Document class.

dstDoc.Save(dataDir + "JoinAndAppendDocuments.UnlinkHeadersFooters.docx");

Here’s the full source code for the “Unlink Headers Footers” feature in C# using Aspose.Words for .NET:

	// Path to your document directory 
	string dataDir = "YOUR DOCUMENT DIRECTORY";

	Document srcDoc = new Document(dataDir + "Document source.docx");
	Document dstDoc = new Document(dataDir + "Northwind traders.docx");
	// Unlink the headers and footers in the source document to stop this
	// from continuing the destination document's headers and footers.
	srcDoc.FirstSection.HeadersFooters.LinkToPrevious(false);
	dstDoc.AppendDocument(srcDoc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
	dstDoc.Save(dataDir + "JoinAndAppendDocuments.UnlinkHeadersFooters.docx");

That’s it! You have successfully implemented the Unlink Headers Footers feature using Aspose.Words for .NET. The final document will contain the merged content with the headers and footers from the source document unlinked from the destination document.