Delete all in Footer

Question

Ok, this is a simple question i think.  I have a mix of contentControls and text in my documents Footer.  I want to delete it all programatically.  I have tried the following but it does not work:

rng = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Sections[1].Footers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary].Range;
rng.Delete();

Answer 1

Hi Renley

How does it not work?

Version of Word?

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Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

Answer 2

Sure. 

 

I am using C#

Word 2007

I am executing this code from a Windows Form.

 

And specifically; it does absolutely nothing.  The code does not error, and the range deletes nothing.  All text and controls are still there. 

 

Perhaps I am simply going about this the wrong way?  How can I simply select the Footer and delete all?

 

 

Answer 3

Hi Renley

<<I am executing this code from a Windows Form.>>

Ahhh.

<<rng = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Sections[1].Footers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary].Range;>>

You can't use Globals.ThisAddin in a Windows Forms application, only from within a VSTO Add-in. I'm actually surprised you're not getting compiler errors...

Could you show me how your code is declaring and instantiating:

- the Word application object
- the Word document in which the header/footer is located

That way I can give you sample code that's meaningful in your project's context and perhaps catch any other problems waiting to jump out and trip you up :-)

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Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

Answer 4

Ok, here goes:

using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

Word.ContentControls conCtrls;

conCtrls = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTag("pic1");

^ So the above works, and allows me to access the controls on a loaded document which is also a template

 

//***this loads the specified template into a new document, we can now edit it or access its controls
object tempName = _templatefilepath + "\\Letter.dotx";
object newTemp = false;
object documentType = Word.WdNewDocumentType.wdNewBlankDocument;
object visible = true;

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Documents.Add(ref tempName, ref newTemp, ref documentType, ref visible);
//***

^ This code also works fine and allows me access to the document.

 

 

Answer 5

Ha!  I got it to work!

Ok, what i was doing wrong was something along the lines of "going too deep into the document"

 

my non-working code =

rng = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Sections[1].Footers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterFirstPage].Range;

rng.Application.ActiveDocument .Tables[1].Delete();

 

However it works when i do the following:

rng = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Sections[1].Footers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterFirstPage].Range;
rng.Tables[1].Delete();