DocumentFirstSection Property

Gets the first section in the document.

Namespace:  Aspose.Words
Assembly:  Aspose.Words (in Aspose.Words.dll) Version: 20.3
Syntax
public Section FirstSection { get; }

Property Value

Type: Section
Remarks
Returns null if there are no sections.
Examples
Shows how to replace text in the document footer.
// Open the template document, containing obsolete copyright information in the footer
Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "Footer.docx");

HeaderFooterCollection headersFooters = doc.FirstSection.HeadersFooters;
HeaderFooter footer = headersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterPrimary];

FindReplaceOptions options = new FindReplaceOptions
{
    MatchCase = false,
    FindWholeWordsOnly = false
};

int currentYear = System.DateTime.Now.Year;
footer.Range.Replace("(C) 2006 Aspose Pty Ltd.", $"Copyright (C) {currentYear} by Aspose Pty Ltd.", options);

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "HeaderFooter.ReplaceText.doc");
Examples
Shows how you can enumerate through children of a composite node and detect types of the children nodes.
// Open a document
Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.Write("Section 1");
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HeaderPrimary);
builder.Write("Primary header");
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.FooterPrimary);
builder.Write("Primary footer");

// Get the first section in the document
Section section = doc.FirstSection;

// A Section is a composite node and therefore can contain child nodes
// Section can contain only Body and HeaderFooter nodes
foreach (Node node in section)
{
    // Every node has the NodeType property
    switch (node.NodeType)
    {
        case NodeType.Body:
        {
            // If the node type is Body, we can cast the node to the Body class
            Body body = (Body) node;

            // Write the content of the main story of the section to the console
            Console.WriteLine("*** Body ***");
            Console.WriteLine(body.GetText());
            break;
        }
        case NodeType.HeaderFooter:
        {
            // If the node type is HeaderFooter, we can cast the node to the HeaderFooter class
            HeaderFooter headerFooter = (HeaderFooter) node;

            // Write the content of the header footer to the console
            Console.WriteLine("*** HeaderFooter ***");
            Console.WriteLine(headerFooter.HeaderFooterType);
            Console.WriteLine(headerFooter.GetText());
            break;
        }
        default:
        {
            // Other types of nodes never occur inside a Section node
            throw new Exception("Unexpected node type in a section.");
        }
    }
}
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