Hello,

I have been researching the functionality that you are trying to achieve and it has been determined as a new Product Idea. We are only providing a way to create footers and headers in a new created document like this:

using (WordDocumentWriter writer = WordDocumentWriter.Create("Document.docx"))
            {
                try
                {
                    ////  Start the document
                    writer.StartDocument();
                    //  Specify the default parts for header/footer
                    //HeaderAllPages
                    SectionHeaderFooterParts parts = SectionHeaderFooterParts.HeaderAllPages;

                    SectionProperties secProps = SectionProperties.Create(writer);
                    //  Call the overload of AddSectionHeaderFooter which does
                    //  not take a SectionProperties; this implies that the section
                    //  to be affected is the default document section, i.e., all
                    //  pages in the document.
                    SectionHeaderFooterWriterSet writerSet =
                        writer.AddSectionHeaderFooter(parts);
                    //Start a paragraph for the header which appears on all pages
                    writerSet.HeaderWriterAllPages.StartParagraph();
                    //  Add a text run which appears on all pages (including the first one)
                    writerSet.HeaderWriterAllPages.AddTextRun("This header appears on all pages including the first one.");
                    writerSet.HeaderWriterAllPages.AddPageNumberField(PageNumberFieldFormat.Decimal);
                    //  Close the paragraph.
                    writerSet.HeaderWriterAllPages.EndParagraph();
                    //Close the 'all pages' header writer
                    writerSet.HeaderWriterAllPages.Close();
                    ////  End the document
                    writer.EndDocument();
                }
                catch (WordDocumentWriterException ex)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Message: " + ex.Message + "\n" + "Inner Exception: " + ex.InnerException);
                }
            }

However you can suggest new Product Ideas for future versions (or vote for existing ones) at http://ideas.infragistics.com .

Steps to create your idea:
               
1. Log into the Infragistics Product Ideas site at http://ideas.infragistics.com  (creating a new login if needed).
2. Navigate to the product / platform channel of your choice (e.g. WPF, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, HTML5 / Ignite UI, iOS / NucliOS, etc.)
3. Add your product idea and be sure to be specific and provide as much detail as possible. Explain the context in which a feature would be used, why it is needed, why it can’t be accomplished today, and who would benefit from it. You can even add screenshots to build a stronger case. Remember that for your suggestion to be successful, you need other members of the community to vote for it. Be convincing!

The benefits of submitting the product idea yourself include:
* Direct communication with our product management team regarding your product idea.
* Notifications whenever new information regarding your idea becomes available.

Additional benefits of the Product Idea system include:

* Ability to vote on your favorite product ideas to let us know which ones are the most important to you.  You will have ten votes for this and can change which ideas you are voting for at any time.
* Allow you to shape the future of our products by requesting new controls and products altogether.
* You and other developers can discuss existing product ideas with members of our Product Management team.

The product ideas site allows you to track the progress of your ideas at any time, see how many votes it got, read comments from other developers in the community, and see if someone from the product team has additional questions for you.

Thank you for contacting Infragistics.

Sincerely,
Teodor Tenev
Software Developer