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Even a new, blank document returns a count of one character because it contains a paragraph mark.Īpplies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and VSTO Add-in projects for Word.
You can determine the number of characters in a document by using the Count property of the Characters collection.Īll characters in the document are counted, including spaces, paragraph marks, and other characters that are normally hidden. The last character position is equal to the total number of characters in the document. The first character in a document is at character position 0, which represents the insertion point.
