DocumentBase.Characters Property

Gets a Characters collection that represents the characters in the document.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property Characters As Characters

public Characters Characters { get; }

Property Value

Type: Characters
A Characters collection that represents the characters in the document.

Examples

The following code example adds text to the first paragraph and then shows a message box that displays the total number of characters in the document. To use this example, run it from the ThisDocument class in a document-level project.

Private Sub DocumentCharacters()
        Me.Paragraphs(1).Range.InsertParagraphAfter()
        Me.Paragraphs(1).Range.Text = "This is sample text."
        MessageBox.Show("Total characters in document: " & Me.Characters.Count)
    End Sub

private void DocumentCharacters()
{
    this.Paragraphs[1].Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
    this.Paragraphs[1].Range.Text = "This is sample text.";
    MessageBox.Show("Total characters in document: " + this.Characters.Count);
}

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

DocumentBase Class

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word Namespace