Header / Footer Support

[Apoc70]

Does the current release support adding headers and footers to a Word document?

[PrzemyslawKlys]

$Document.AddHeadersFooters() is what you look for, but as I see it's not available in current PSWriteOffice which is weird.

I really need to make libraries consistent with current versions of OfficeIMO

[jpedlowCDW]

Bumping this one up, It looks like there's still no header/footer support, but appears to be in OfficeIMOI. If I were smarter in C#, I'd try to slam in a PR. It also appears that the Lib folder containing the dll's with the release isn't included. Thanks for everything!

[PrzemyslawKlys]

I'm pretty sure the current version on PowerShellGallery has support for AddHeadersFooters. Have you tested it?

As for missing Lib, it's because I decided you need to build it yourself using Build script if you want to play with adding new features. We're not supposed to upload binary files to GIT.

[jpedlowCDW]

@PrzemyslawKlys I could be doing something wrong, but I cannot find any evidence there's support in the module other than REMOVING headers currently. I suspect it's a bit behind IMO.

From what I can see between the docs, and checking PS: It's also appears to not be an exported function in the PSD1 for the module. Happy to accept that I could be wrong, but I can't find any evidence of it.

I'd submit a PR to fix it if I had the C# knowledge, but I'm not quite there yet, unfortunately. Really have high hopes for this module :)

[PrzemyslawKlys]

It's maybe not straightforward but everything doable in C#, all the methods are available.

$Document = New-OfficeWord -FilePath $PSScriptRoot\Documents\BasicDocument.docx

$Document.Settings.FontFamily = 'Times New Roman'

$Document.AddHeadersAndFooters()

$MyParagraph = $Document.Header.Default.AddParagraph("This is a header")

New-OfficeWordText -Document $Document -Text 'This is a test, very big test ', 'and this should be bold' -Bold $null, $true -Underline Dash, $null

New-OfficeWordText -Document $Document -Text 'This is a test, very big test', 'ooops' -Color Blue, Gold -Alignment Right

$Paragraph = New-OfficeWordText -Document $Document -Text 'Centered' -Color Blue, Gold -Alignment Center -ReturnObject

New-OfficeWordText -Document $Document -Text ' Attached to existing paragraph', ' continue' -Paragraph $Paragraph -Color Blue

Save-OfficeWord -Document $Document -Show

Wrapping it up into easier PowerShell commands takes effort and time and currently I lack time.

Same goes for properties of given Paragraph for example:

$Document | Get-Member

I will release new version soon, but mostly just with new DLL, not with fully functional PowerShell cmdlets

[jpedlowCDW]

THANK YOU @PrzemyslawKlys . :) That solves the case right there.

I'm looking for standalone cmdlets while they're sitting as methods. Thank you for taking the time to explain/demonstrate to a mere mortal like me. I'm off to do some tinkering. :)

I'll try to devote some effort to docs/examples, if that's alright with you? :)

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Sure, why not. Just a warning - people who say that - usually end up realizing it's harder than it seems and never come back 😂🤣 You can always write wrapper around those commands and do PRs for that. I guess effectively we should have similar options as PSWriteWord project.