Add Header and Footer to an existing empty word document with OpenXML SDK 2.0

Question

I\'m trying to add a Header and Footer to an empty word document.

I use this code to add Header part in word/document.xml when change docx to zip.

Answer 1

I'm quite sure what is wrong with your code, I suspect its the way you are changing the references.

In any case I have a working example which you should hopefully guide you.

I've based mine from examples here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/cc546917.aspx

I used the Open XML SDK 2.0 Productivity Tool to Generate the Header and Footer parts. I first create a document with my desired layout then open it with the tool, it generates the XML or Code. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5124

The only caveat to this is that it assumes the document already some content in the body, a single letter will do. I'm not sure if this can be avoided, I tried opening an empty document in the Productivity Tool and it suffers from the same error - "Cannot open the file: Archive file cannot be size 0". In my sample it will fail on WordprocessingDocument.Open.

Maybe in the case of an empty document you have to create a body first. In any case I suspect the main aim of this question is to add a header and footer so I feel this is a valid answer.

If you want I can provide the actual cs/project files.

Hope this helps.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;

namespace HeaderFooterDocX
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ChangeHeader(@"C:\Users\James\Desktop\Document.docx");
        }

        static void ChangeHeader(String documentPath)
        {
            // Replace header in target document with header of source document.
            using (WordprocessingDocument document = WordprocessingDocument.Open(documentPath, true))
            {
                // Get the main document part
                MainDocumentPart mainDocumentPart = document.MainDocumentPart;

                // Delete the existing header and footer parts
                mainDocumentPart.DeleteParts(mainDocumentPart.HeaderParts);
                mainDocumentPart.DeleteParts(mainDocumentPart.FooterParts);

                // Create a new header and footer part
                HeaderPart headerPart = mainDocumentPart.AddNewPart();
                FooterPart footerPart = mainDocumentPart.AddNewPart();

                // Get Id of the headerPart and footer parts
                string headerPartId = mainDocumentPart.GetIdOfPart(headerPart);
                string footerPartId = mainDocumentPart.GetIdOfPart(footerPart);

                GenerateHeaderPartContent(headerPart);

                GenerateFooterPartContent(footerPart);

                // Get SectionProperties and Replace HeaderReference and FooterRefernce with new Id
                IEnumerable sections = mainDocumentPart.Document.Body.Elements();

                foreach (var section in sections)
                {
                    // Delete existing references to headers and footers
                    section.RemoveAllChildren();
                    section.RemoveAllChildren();

                    // Create the new header and footer reference node
                    section.PrependChild(new HeaderReference() { Id = headerPartId });
                    section.PrependChild(new FooterReference() { Id = footerPartId });
                }
            }
        }

        static void GenerateHeaderPartContent(HeaderPart part)
        {
            Header header1 = new Header() { MCAttributes = new MarkupCompatibilityAttributes() { Ignorable = "w14 wp14" } };
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wpc", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("mc", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("o", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("r", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("m", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("v", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wp14", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wp", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("w10", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("w", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("w14", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wpg", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wpi", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wne", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml");
            header1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wps", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape");

            Paragraph paragraph1 = new Paragraph() { RsidParagraphAddition = "00164C17", RsidRunAdditionDefault = "00164C17" };

            ParagraphProperties paragraphProperties1 = new ParagraphProperties();
            ParagraphStyleId paragraphStyleId1 = new ParagraphStyleId() { Val = "Header" };

            paragraphProperties1.Append(paragraphStyleId1);

            Run run1 = new Run();
            Text text1 = new Text();
            text1.Text = "Header";

            run1.Append(text1);

            paragraph1.Append(paragraphProperties1);
            paragraph1.Append(run1);

            header1.Append(paragraph1);

            part.Header = header1;
        }

        static void GenerateFooterPartContent(FooterPart part)
        {
            Footer footer1 = new Footer() { MCAttributes = new MarkupCompatibilityAttributes() { Ignorable = "w14 wp14" } };
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wpc", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("mc", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("o", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("r", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("m", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("v", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wp14", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wp", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("w10", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("w", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("w14", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wpg", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wpi", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wne", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml");
            footer1.AddNamespaceDeclaration("wps", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape");

            Paragraph paragraph1 = new Paragraph() { RsidParagraphAddition = "00164C17", RsidRunAdditionDefault = "00164C17" };

            ParagraphProperties paragraphProperties1 = new ParagraphProperties();
            ParagraphStyleId paragraphStyleId1 = new ParagraphStyleId() { Val = "Footer" };

            paragraphProperties1.Append(paragraphStyleId1);

            Run run1 = new Run();
            Text text1 = new Text();
            text1.Text = "Footer";

            run1.Append(text1);

            paragraph1.Append(paragraphProperties1);
            paragraph1.Append(run1);

            footer1.Append(paragraph1);

            part.Footer = footer1;
        }
    }
}