importHeadersAndFooters

LAYOUT & GENERAL

WORD CONTENT

TEMPLATES

FORMAT CONVERSION

DOCXPATH

DOCXUTILITIES

DOCXPATHUTILITIES

removeSection

PDFUTILITIES

DOCXCUSTOMIZER

customizeWordContent

PERFORMANCE

stream

ENCRYPT

encryptPDF

importHeadersAndFooters

BASIC / ADVANCED / PREMIUM

Imports headers and footers from an external Word document.

Description

public void importHeadersAndFooters(String source) throws Exception

public void importHeadersAndFooters(String source, String type) throws Exception

This method allows the insertion of Headers and Footers from an external Word document in the current Word document.

If the type parameter is omitted both headers and footers are imported.

Parameters

path

The path to the external Word document.

type

The options are:.

"headerAndFooter" to import both header and footer (default value)
"header" for just the header
"footer" for just the footer

Code samples

Example #1

package examples.LayoutAndGeneral.importHeadersAndFooters;

import com.javadocx.CreateDocx;

public class Sample1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        CreateDocx docx = new CreateDocx();
        
        docx.importHeadersAndFooters("src/examples/files/TemplateHeaderAndFooter.docx");
        //docx.addText("This is the resulting word document with imported header and footer.");
        // You may import only the header with
        //docx.importHeadersAndFooters("src/examples/files/TemplateHeaderAndFooter.docx", "header");
        // and only the footer with
        //docx.importHeadersAndFooters("src/examples/files/TemplateHeaderAndFooter.docx", "footer");
        
        docx.createDocx("example_importHeadersAndFooters_1");
    }
}

The resulting Word document looks like: