Add a new page without header and footer OpenXML

Question

I am using the following code to add a new page in existing document.It is working but the newly created page copying the properties of old page ( header and footer).I wanted to add/append a new page without header and footer to existing document. Please suggest what is wrong here.Is there any way to get the last page and remove the header and footer

Below code is giving this xml

        Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph();
        ParagraphProperties paragraphProperties = new ParagraphProperties();

        SectionProperties sectionProperties1 = new SectionProperties();

        SectionType sectionType1 = new SectionType() { Val = SectionMarkValues.NextPage };
        //sectionType1.Descendants<FooterReference>();

        sectionProperties1.Append(sectionType1);
        paragraphProperties.Append(sectionProperties1);

        paragraph.Append(paragraphProperties);
        mainPart.Document.Body.InsertAfter(paragraph, mainPart.Document.Body.LastChild);

MarkoR MarkoR · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-02T16:18:57

Header and footer are connected with sections using relationships, like this:

<w:sectPr>
. . .
<w:footerReference r:id="rId10" w:type="default"/>
. . .
</w:sectPr>

So in order to remove the header/footer from section, one need to remove them from SectionProperties element. For all sections except the last section, the SectionProperties element is stored as a child element of the last paragraph in the section. For the last section, the SectionProperties is stored as a child element of the body element. So in order to add page without header and footer you need to:

Create new paragraph
Get last section properties from the Body and insert it's clone into new paragraph (by doing: secProp.Clone(true))
Remove last section properties from the Body
Add newly created paragraph to the Body
Add new paragraph with page break to the body (new Paragraph(new Run(new Break(){ Type = BreakValues.Page })))
Add new paragraph with new empty section properties as you already did in your code

For more info, see here: http://officeopenxml.com/WPsection.php

Add a new page without header and footer OpenXML

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