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Document Class
Document Properties
_CodeName Property
ActiveTheme Property
ActiveThemeDisplayName Property
ActiveWindow Property
ActiveWritingStyle Property
Application Property
AttachedTemplate Property
AutoFormatOverride Property
AutoHyphenation Property
Background Property
Bookmarks Property
BuiltInDocumentProperties Property
Characters Property
ChildNodeSuggestions Property
ClickAndTypeParagraphStyle Property
CodeName Property
CommandBars Property
Comments Property
Compatibility Property
ConsecutiveHyphensLimit Property
Container Property
Content Property
Controls Property
Creator Property
CustomDocumentProperties Property
DefaultTableStyle Property
DefaultTabStop Property
DefaultTargetFrame Property
DisableFeatures Property
DisableFeaturesIntroducedAfter Property
DocumentLibraryVersions Property
DoNotEmbedSystemFonts Property
Email Property
EmbedLinguisticData Property
EmbedSmartTags Property
EmbedTrueTypeFonts Property
Endnotes Property
EnforceStyle Property
Envelope Property
FarEastLineBreakLanguage Property
FarEastLineBreakLevel Property
Fields Property
Footnotes Property
FormattingShowClear Property
FormattingShowFilter Property
FormattingShowFont Property
FormattingShowNumbering Property
FormattingShowParagraph Property
FormFields Property
FormsDesign Property
Frames Property
Frameset Property
FullName Property
GrammarChecked Property
GrammaticalErrors Property
GridDistanceHorizontal Property
GridDistanceVertical Property
GridOriginFromMargin Property
GridOriginHorizontal Property
GridOriginVertical Property
GridSpaceBetweenHorizontalLines Property
GridSpaceBetweenVerticalLines Property
HasMailer Property
HasPassword Property
HasRoutingSlip Property
HTMLDivisions Property
HTMLProject Property
Hyperlinks Property
HyphenateCaps Property
HyphenationZone Property
Indexes Property
InlineShapes Property
InnerObject Property
IsMasterDocument Property
IsSubdocument Property
JustificationMode Property
KerningByAlgorithm Property
Kind Property
LanguageDetected Property
ListParagraphs Property
Lists Property
ListTemplates Property
MailEnvelope Property
Mailer Property
MailMerge Property
Name Property
NoLineBreakAfter Property
NoLineBreakBefore Property
OpenEncoding Property
OptimizeForWord97 Property
PageSetup Property
Paragraphs Property
Parent Property
Password Property
PasswordEncryptionAlgorithm Property
PasswordEncryptionFileProperties Property
PasswordEncryptionKeyLength Property
PasswordEncryptionProvider Property
Path Property
Permission Property
PrintFormsData Property
PrintFractionalWidths Property
PrintPostScriptOverText Property
PrintRevisions Property
ProtectionType Property
ReadabilityStatistics Property
ReadingLayoutSizeX Property
ReadingLayoutSizeY Property
ReadingModeLayoutFrozen Property
ReadOnly Property
ReadOnlyRecommended Property
RemoveDateAndTime Property
RemovePersonalInformation Property
Revisions Property
Routed Property
RoutingSlip Property
Saved Property
SaveEncoding Property
SaveFormat Property
SaveFormsData Property
SaveSubsetFonts Property
Scripts Property
Sections Property
Sentences Property
Shapes Property
SharedWorkspace Property
ShowGrammaticalErrors Property
ShowRevisions Property
ShowSpellingErrors Property
ShowSummary Property
Signatures Property
SmartDocument Property
SmartTags Property
SmartTagsAsXMLProps Property
SnapToGrid Property
SnapToShapes Property
SpellingChecked Property
SpellingErrors Property
StoryRanges Property
Styles Property
StyleSheets Property
Subdocuments Property
SummaryLength Property
SummaryViewMode Property
Sync Property
Tables Property
TablesOfAuthorities Property
TablesOfAuthoritiesCategories Property
TablesOfContents Property
TablesOfFigures Property
Tag Property
TextEncoding Property
TextLineEnding Property
TrackRevisions Property
Type Property
UpdateStylesOnOpen Property
UserControl Property
Variables Property
VBASigned Property
VBProject Property
Versions Property
VstoSmartTags Property
WebOptions Property
Windows Property
Words Property
WritePassword Property
WriteReserved Property
XMLHideNamespaces Property
XMLNodes Property
XMLSaveDataOnly Property
XMLSaveThroughXSLT Property
XMLSchemaReferences Property
XMLSchemaViolations Property
XMLShowAdvancedErrors Property
XMLUseXSLTWhenSaving Property
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Document.Characters Property

Visual Studio 2005

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

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word (in microsoft.office.tools.word.dll)

C#
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Copy 
public virtual Characters Characters { get; }

Property Value

A Characters collection that represents the characters in the document.

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.

C#
VB
Copy 
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);
}
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