How to Remove Pages from Word Document in C#

remove-pages-from-word-in-csharp.md

Learn How to Remove Pages from Word Document in C#.

remove-pages-from-word-in-csharp_blank_pages.cs

// The following code sample shows how to remove all the blank page from a Word document using C#.
// Load a document
Document doc = new Document("Document.docx");

// Remove all the blank pages
doc.RemoveBlankPages();

// Save the updated document
doc.Save("Document_out.docx");

remove-pages-from-word-in-csharp_by_content.cs

// This code sample shows how to remove a page from a Word document containing specific text using C#.
// Load a document
Document doc = new Document("Document.docx");

// Text to search
var PageText = "Page 2";

var isTextFound = false;

for (int page = 0; page < doc.PageCount; page++)
{
    ArrayList nodes = GetNodesByPage(page, doc);

    // Check if this page contains specific text
    foreach (Node node in nodes)
    {
        // Check if text found
        if (PageText == node.GetText().Trim())
        {
            isTextFound = true;
        }
    }

    if(isTextFound)
    {
        foreach (Node node in nodes)
        {
            node.Remove();
        }
        isTextFound= false;
    }
    nodes.Clear();
}

// Save the updated document
doc.Save("Document_out.docx");

remove-pages-from-word-in-csharp_by_index.cs

// The following code sample shows how to remove a page by its index from a Word document in C#.
// Load a document
Document doc = new Document("Document.docx");

// Initializa LayoutCollector
LayoutCollector layoutCollector = new LayoutCollector(doc);

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
// Get child nodes
foreach (Node node in doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Any, true))
{
    if (layoutCollector.GetNumPagesSpanned(node) == 0)
    {
        int pageIndex = layoutCollector.GetStartPageIndex(node);
        // Remove Page 2
        if (pageIndex == 2)
        {
            list.Add(node);
        }
    }
}

foreach (Node node in list)
    node.Remove();

// Save the document
doc.Save("Document_out.docx");

remove-pages-from-word-in-csharp_GetNodesByPage.cs

static ArrayList GetNodesByPage(int page, Document document)
{
    ArrayList nodes = new ArrayList();
    LayoutCollector lc = new LayoutCollector(document);
    foreach (Paragraph para in document.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Paragraph, true))
    {
        Console.WriteLine();
        if (lc.GetStartPageIndex(para) == page)
            nodes.Add(para);
    }
    return nodes;
}

remove-pages-from-word-in-csharp_page_breaks.cs

// The following code sample shows how to remove page breaks in a Word document using C#.
// Load the document
Document doc = new Document("Document.docx");

// Get all Paragraph child nodes
NodeCollection paragraphs = doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Paragraph, true);

foreach (Paragraph para in paragraphs)
{
    // If the paragraph has a page break before set, then clear it.
    if (para.ParagraphFormat.PageBreakBefore)
        para.ParagraphFormat.PageBreakBefore = false;

    // Check all runs in the paragraph for page breaks and remove them.
    foreach (Run run in para.Runs)
    {
        if (run.Text.Contains(ControlChar.PageBreak))
            run.Text = run.Text.Replace(ControlChar.PageBreak, string.Empty);
    }
}

// Save the document
doc.Save("Document_out.docx");