Re: Insert Page Break using C# (WordprocessingDocument)

Hi to all,

I just started using WordprocessingDocument. I was wondering how you would insert a Section Break, Page Break into a Wordprocessing Document?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I am using the following code to combine documents. I want to be able to add a Section Break at the end of the final document.

public static void MergeSourceDocument(string sourceFile, string destinationFile, string AltChunkID)
        {
            using (WordprocessingDocument myDoc =
                WordprocessingDocument.Open(sourceFile, true))
            {
               
                string altChunkId = AltChunkID;
                MainDocumentPart mainPart = myDoc.MainDocumentPart;
                AlternativeFormatImportPart chunk = mainPart.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(
                    AlternativeFormatImportPartType.WordprocessingML, altChunkId);
                using (FileStream fileStream = File.Open(destinationFile, FileMode.Open))
                    chunk.FeedData(fileStream);
                AltChunk altChunk = new AltChunk();
                altChunk.Id = altChunkId;
                mainPart.Document
                    .Body
                    .InsertAfter(altChunk, mainPart.Document.Body.Elements<Paragraph>().Last());
                mainPart.Document.Save();
                                          
            }
        }

Thanks to all

Hi,

DocumentReflector is a good learning tool to solve open issues. Insert a section break in your document via UI, then use DocumentReflector to see the C# code of that element.

gooddol,

This is a wonderful tool and worked perfect.

Thanks for the reply!

Did you ever resolve this?

Hi Geoff,

I think the suggestion was to use the Document Reflector to analyze a document generated inside MS Word.

We're working on an article that looks at how to use the document reflector, but, until then this blog post has some walk throughs.
http://blogs.msdn.com/alspeirs/archive/2008/12/09/generating-documents-with-c-open-xml-and-the-document-reflector.aspx

Thanks.Using the document reflector I have the following code:

Dim para As Paragraph = New Paragraph(New Run(New Break()))
mainPart.Document.Body.InsertAfter(para, mainPart.Document.Body.LastChild())

Which seems to work ok.

Seems that it's quite different in OpenXML SDK v.2
Now you need to use the following one

theTable.AppendChild(new Paragraph(new Run(new Break(){ Type = BreakValues.Page })));

Where "theTable" is the element where you want to add the page break after.