Of course that only can work if one at least knows where the last page starts. It creates a footer for even pages in document, which never gets used but later gets referenced as the default footer for the last section. One could create one of the three possible header/footer types only to set it to be the default header/footer for an own section later. So to get a XWPFDocument separated into sections and to set different header/footer settings for those sections, a little bit cheating is necessary. And it only provides methods to set the three different header/footer types in document. Unfortunately apache poi do not provide methods to set sections in XWPF.

So if, and only if, the last page is in its own section, then there can be a different header/footer for the last page (last section) only. And each section may have own header/footer settings. This is except first page, if there is a special header/footer for first page set.īut a Word document can be separated into different sections. If there is no such setting, then the default header/footer gets used for each page. So if there is a header/footer for even pages and a setting that odd and even pages shall be different, then default header/footer gets used as header/footer for odd pages only. There the default header/footer gets used for each pages if not else is defined. There are different header/footer settings possible for first page, even pages and default pages. There is not a header/footer only for the last page in Microsoft Word.

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