In the previous articles, I've introduced how to add text and image header/footer to Word document as well as how to add different headers/footers for odd and even pages. Now, this article will show you how to remove all these headers and footers in a Word document using Free Spire.Doc for Java.
Installation (2 methods)
● Download the Free Spire.Doc for Java and unzip it, then add the Spire.Doc.jar file to your Java application as dependency.
● Directly add the jar dependency to maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.
<repositories> <repository> <id>com.e-iceblue</id> <name>e-iceblue</name> <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId> <artifactId>spire.doc.free</artifactId> <version>3.9.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> Remove Header
import com.spire.doc.Document; import com.spire.doc.FileFormat; import com.spire.doc.HeaderFooter; import com.spire.doc.Section; import com.spire.doc.documents.HeaderFooterType; public class RemoveHeader { public static void main(String[] args){ //Create a Document instance Document doc = new Document(); //Load a sample Word document doc.loadFromFile("Sample.docx"); //Get the first section Section section = doc.getSections().get(0); //Remove the header on the first page HeaderFooter header = section.getHeadersFooters().getByHeaderFooterType(HeaderFooterType.Header_First_Page); if (header != null) header.getChildObjects().clear(); //Remove the header on the odd pages header = section.getHeadersFooters().getByHeaderFooterType(HeaderFooterType.Header_Odd); if (header != null) header.getChildObjects().clear(); //Remove the header on the even pages header = section.getHeadersFooters().getByHeaderFooterType(HeaderFooterType.Header_Even); if (header != null) header.getChildObjects().clear(); //Save the result document doc.saveToFile("RemoveHeader.docx", FileFormat.Docx_2013); } } Remove Footer
import com.spire.doc.Document; import com.spire.doc.FileFormat; import com.spire.doc.HeaderFooter; import com.spire.doc.Section; import com.spire.doc.documents.HeaderFooterType; public class RemoveFooter { public static void main(String[] args){ //Create a Document instance Document doc = new Document(); //Load a sample Word document doc.loadFromFile("Sample.docx"); //Get the first section Section section = doc.getSections().get(0); //Remove footer on the first page HeaderFooter footer = section.getHeadersFooters().getByHeaderFooterType(HeaderFooterType.Footer_First_Page); if (footer != null) footer.getChildObjects().clear(); //Remove footer on the odd pages footer = section.getHeadersFooters().getByHeaderFooterType(HeaderFooterType.Footer_Odd); if (footer != null) footer.getChildObjects().clear(); //Remove footer on the even pages footer = section.getHeadersFooters().getByHeaderFooterType(HeaderFooterType.Footer_Even); if (footer != null) footer.getChildObjects().clear(); //Save the result document doc.saveToFile("RemoveFooter.docx", FileFormat.Docx_2013); } } 
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