Add Footnote in word in WPF

Footnote is a note at the bottom of a page that gives more detailed information about something on the page. In this section, we will demonstrate how to add footnote in word using Spire.Doc for WPF.

First, create a new project by choosing WPF Application in Visual Studio, adding a button in the Main Window. Add Spire.Doc.Wpf.dll as reference to your project, and then double click the button to start.

Step 1: Initialize a new instance of Document class. Load the word document from the file.

Document doc = new Document();
doc.LoadFromFile("Oscar.docx");

Step 2: Select the section and paragraph which needs adding footnote. In this example, we choose the first section and the fourth paragraph.

Section sec = doc.Sections[0];
Paragraph paragraph = sec.Paragraphs[3];

Step 3: Add footnote by the method of paragraph.AppendFootnote() and then add the footnote contents by using footnote.TextBody.AddParagraph().AppendText(). At last, set the font style, size and color.

Footnote fn = paragraph.AppendFootnote(FootnoteType.Footnote);
TextRange text = fn.TextBody.AddParagraph().AppendText("Oscar Wilde (film), a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde");
text.CharacterFormat.FontName = "Calibri";
text.CharacterFormat.FontSize = 11;
text.CharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Chocolate;

Step 4: Set format of the marker.

fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.FontName = "Arial";
fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.FontSize = 14;
fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.Bold = true;
fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Brown;

Step 5: Save the document and launch the file.

document.SaveToFile("FootNote.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("FootNote.docx");

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Add Footnote in word in WPF

Full codes:

[C#]

using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows;
using Spire.Doc;
using Spire.Doc.Documents;
using Spire.Doc.Fields;

namespace Add_Footnote_to_Word
{
    /// 
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// 
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Document doc = new Document();
            doc.LoadFromFile("Oscar.docx");
            Section sec = doc.Sections[0];
            Paragraph paragraph = sec.Paragraphs[3];

            Footnote fn = paragraph.AppendFootnote(FootnoteType.Footnote);
            TextRange text = fn.TextBody.AddParagraph().AppendText("Oscar Wilde (film), a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde");
            text.CharacterFormat.FontName = "Calibri";
            text.CharacterFormat.FontSize = 11;
            text.CharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Chocolate;

            fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.FontName = "Arial";
            fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.FontSize = 14;
            fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.Bold = true;
            fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Brown;

            doc.SaveToFile("AddFootNote.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("AddFootNote.docx");

        }
    }
}

[VB.NET]

Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Windows
Imports Spire.Doc
Imports Spire.Doc.Documents
Imports Spire.Doc.Fields

Namespace Add_Footnote_to_Word
	''' 
	''' Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
	''' 
	Public Partial Class MainWindow
		Inherits Window
		Public Sub New()
			InitializeComponent()
		End Sub

		Private Sub button1_Click(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs)
			Dim doc As New Document()
			doc.LoadFromFile("Oscar.docx")
			Dim sec As Section = doc.Sections(0)
			Dim paragraph As Paragraph = sec.Paragraphs(3)

			Dim fn As Footnote = paragraph.AppendFootnote(FootnoteType.Footnote)
			Dim text As TextRange = fn.TextBody.AddParagraph().AppendText("Oscar Wilde (film), a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde")
			text.CharacterFormat.FontName = "Calibri"
			text.CharacterFormat.FontSize = 11
			text.CharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Chocolate

			fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.FontName = "Arial"
			fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.FontSize = 14
			fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.Bold = True
			fn.MarkerCharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Brown

			doc.SaveToFile("AddFootNote.docx", FileFormat.Docx)
			System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("AddFootNote.docx")

		End Sub
	End Class
End Namespace

Add Footnote in word in WPF

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