Document.Characters Property

Word Developer Reference

Returns a Characters collection that represents the characters in a document. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.Characters

expression   A variable that represents a Document object.

Remarks

For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.

Example

This example returns the number of characters in the first sentence in the active document (spaces are included in the count).

Visual Basic for Applications
  numchars = ActiveDocument.Characters.Count

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