Create header and footer

The following example shows you how to add header and footer to a document.

import com.independentsoft.office.word.HorizontalAlignmentType;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.Paragraph;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.Run;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.WordDocument;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.headerFooter.Footer;
import com.independentsoft.office.word.headerFooter.Header;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            WordDocument doc = new WordDocument();

            Run run1 = new Run();
            run1.addText("Hello Word!");

            Paragraph paragraph1 = new Paragraph();
            paragraph1.add(run1);

            Run headerRun = new Run();
            headerRun.addText("Header text");

            Paragraph headerParagraph = new Paragraph();
            headerParagraph.add(headerRun);
            headerParagraph.setHorizontalTextAlignment(HorizontalAlignmentType.RIGHT);

            Header header = new Header();
            header.add(headerParagraph);

            Run footerRun = new Run();
            footerRun.addText("Footer text");

            Paragraph footerParagraph = new Paragraph();
            footerParagraph.add(footerRun);
            footerParagraph.setHorizontalTextAlignment(HorizontalAlignmentType.CENTER);

            Footer footer = new Footer();
            footer.add(footerParagraph);

            doc.getBody().add(paragraph1);
            doc.getBody().setHeader(header);
            doc.getBody().setFooter(footer);

            doc.save("c:\\test\\output.docx", true);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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