Word, replace image in header on second page

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I have a Word document with a header for the first page and a header for the 2nd and next pages. Each of the two headers contain an image. These images must be replaced.

This piece of code works fine to remove all images.

C#

foreach (Word.Section section in objDocument.Sections)
{
  foreach (Word.HeaderFooter headerfooter in section.Headers)
  {
    Word.Shapes shapes = headerfooter.Shapes;
    for (int i = 0; i < shapes.Count; i++)
    {
      object item = i + 1;
      shape = shapes.get_Item(ref item);
      if (shape.Type == Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoShapeType.msoEmbeddedOLEObject)
      {
        shapes.AddPicture(workparams.imagepath, ref linktofile, ref savewithdocument,
          ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

        shape.Delete();
      }
    }
  }
}

But the images I add all show up in the header of the first page.

It probably has to do with the 'anchor' of the image, but I can't figure it out where to find the right anchor.

Does anybody know the trick to insert an image in the header on the second page?
Thanks...

Posted 26-May-11 2:55am

Arjen H.

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Solution 1

I haven't played with images in headers, but I have done some automation with headers. The method I use is to use

Word.HeaderFooter headerfooter = section.Headers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary];

According to MSDN[^] wdHeaderFooterFirstPage indexes the header on the first page in the section whilst wdHeaderFooterPrimary accesses the header on the remaining pages in the section.

Posted 26-May-11 11:45am

Graham Shanks

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Arjen H. · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-26T23:33:00

Thanks Graham, this pointed me in the right direction!

This is my solution.

C#

foreach (Word.Section section in objDocument.Sections)
{
  headerfooter = section.Headers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterFirstPage];
  try
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < headerfooter.Range.InlineShapes.Count; i++)
    {
      inlineshape = headerfooter.Range.InlineShapes[i + 1];
      inlineshape.Delete();
      headerfooter.Range.InlineShapes.AddPicture(workparams.imagepath, ref linktofile, ref savewithdocument, ref Unknown);
    }
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    throw;
  }


  headerfooter = section.Headers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary];
  try
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < headerfooter.Range.InlineShapes.Count; i++)
    {
      inlineshape = headerfooter.Range.InlineShapes[i + 1];
      inlineshape.Delete();
      headerfooter.Range.InlineShapes.AddPicture(workparams.imagepath, ref linktofile, ref savewithdocument, ref Unknown);
    }
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    throw;
  }
}