This step-by-step short tutorial explains how to add header and footer in Word document using Java. It is very easy to add header footer in Word using Java like adding date, page number, total pages, and file name. Once the headers and footers are set, this document can be saved as DOCX or with any other Word file format.
Steps to Add Header and Footer in Word Document using Java
- Add Aspose.Words from the Maven repository to work with the Word document
- Instantiate a blank Word document using Document class
- Initialize a DocumentBuilder class object to access different document elements
- Add different type of headers in the document
- Add some footers in the document
- Insert page breaks to see the impact of different types of headers and footers
- Save the Word document with headers and footers as a DOCX file
These steps provide information on how to insert header and footer in Word using Java by first getting reference to the header and adding some text for it and then accessing the footer to add some text for it. Finally few page breaks are added in the document to check the behavior of headers and footers.
Code to Apply Header and Footer in MS Word using Java
This Java code uses DocumentBuilder class object to perform main tasks in the document like accessing the headers and footers to write text, moving to particular section of the document and adding page breaks. The Document class is used to create and save the Word document.
In this tutorial we got directions to add header and footer in Word using Java. You can perform many other tasks with documents as well like adding comments. For this, refer to the article how to add comments in Word using Java. There is no need to install MS Word or Interop library to work with the Word document in this tutorial.
