Remove Page Breaks from a Document

On this page we will look at how to remove page breaks from a document using Aspose.Words or Open XML SDK.

Aspose.Words

In Aspose.Words, use the PageBreak field of the ControlChar class to find all page breaks.

The following code example shows how to remove page breaks from a document:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET.git.
Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "Remove page breaks.docx");

// Remove all page breaks.
foreach (Paragraph paragraph in doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Paragraph, true))
{
    foreach (Run run in paragraph.Runs)
    {
        if (run.Text.Contains(ControlChar.PageBreak))
            run.Text = run.Text.Replace(ControlChar.PageBreak.ToString(), string.Empty);
    }
}

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "Remove page breaks - Aspose.Words.docx");

Open XML SDK

You can also do the same using the Open XML SDK. At the same time, note that it looks somewhat more complicated and more cumbersome.

The following code example shows how to remove page breaks from a document:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET.git.
File.Copy(MyDir + "Remove page breaks.docx", ArtifactsDir + "Remove page breaks - OpenXML.docx", true);

using WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(ArtifactsDir + "Remove page breaks - OpenXML.docx", true);
// Get the main document part.
Body body = doc.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body;

// Find all page breaks in the document.
List<Break> breaks = body.Descendants<Break>().ToList();
foreach (var pageBreak in breaks)
    pageBreak.Remove();

You can download the sample file of this example from Aspose.Words GitHub.

For more information about Aspose.Words features please visit Remove Page and Section Breaks.