Place text in the header or footer of a Word document

Problem/Question/Abstract:

Can someone tell me how to set the text in footers of MS Word documents programmatically from inside D5? I can create and open the document. I think it has to do with the BuiltInDocumentProperties. However, I cannot find a property for the document footer. Any ideas?

Answer:

Solve 1:

You can't access the header/ footer via BuiltInDocumentProperties. Use this instead:

Footer:

{ ... }
aDoc := WordApp.Documents.Add(EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
aDoc.Sections.Item(1).Footers.Item(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Text :=
  'This is a footer';
{ ... }

Header:

{ ... }
aDoc := WordApp.Documents.Add(EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
aDoc.Sections.Item(1).Headers.Item(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Text :=
  'This is a header';
{ ... }


Solve 2:

This works with Word 2000, and I can't remember it having changed since Word 97, anyway. If Doc is your Word document:

{ ... }
var
  Hdr: HeaderFooter;
  { ... }
  Hdr := Doc.Sections.Item(1).Headers.Item(wdHeaderFooterPrimary);
  Hdr.Range.Text := 'This is a header';
  { ... }