word: ActiveDocument.Characters.Count not equal to Activedocument.Content.StoryLength

Question

I found out, that storylength is more then 50% bigger than characters.count.

Why? Should it not be the same?

(word 2010)

Answer 1

Yes, you would think so.

But, characters.count may not pick up characters outside of the main story.

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.characters.

For instance, in a document I get the following responses in the Immediate Window:

? Activedocument.Content.StoryLength

2

? activedocument.Content.Characters.Count

1

? Selection.characters.count

44

None of these means what one might think, except for the last one, the selection. They are all about the same document, which contains more that 50 characters. The only one in the main story is the required paragraph mark. There are characters in a header and in a textbox. The characters in the textbox are selected.

Would you care to save a sample document where this is not the case on OneDrive or SharePoint and post a link to it here?

Answer 2

Sorry, I do not know how to do this sample-document thing.

I try it this way:

Sub Makro3()

My problem is, if I do a .find in the range, it sometimes returns start- and endpoint values related to the storylength. It is therefor difficult to handle these results.