Question

I am looking for a way to insert headers and footers into a Microsoft Word document that was generated from within Power Shell. Is there a way to do this? If so, what is an example of some code needed to accomplish this?

Answer 1

# Create a new Word application COM object
$Word = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application;
# Make the Word application visible
$Word.Visible = $true;
# Add a new document to the application
$Doc = $Word.Documents.Add();
# Get the first Section of the Document object
$Section = $Doc.Sections.Item(1);
# Get the header from the Section object
$Header = $Section.Headers.Item(1);
# Get the footer from the Section object
$Footer = $Section.Footers.Item(1);

# Set the text for the header and footer
$Header.Range.Text = "Hey, I'm the header!";
$Footer.Range.Text = "Hey, I'm the footer!";

# Create a Table of Contents (ToC)
$Toc = $Doc.TablesOfContents.Add($Section.Range);