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NamedRange.Characters Property

Visual Studio 2005

Gets a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Characters object that represents a range of characters within the text of the NamedRange control.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in microsoft.office.tools.excel.dll)

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public _CharactersType Characters { get; }

Property Value

A Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Characters object that represents a range of characters within the text of the NamedRange control.

The Characters property is intended to be used with the following parameters.

Parameter

Description

Start

The first character to be returned. If this argument is either 1 or omitted, this property returns a range of characters starting with the first character.

Length

The number of characters to be returned. If this argument is omitted, this property returns the remainder of the string (everything after the Start character).

If you attempt to use Characters without specifying any parameters, Characters will get a NamedRange._CharactersType object that is part of the Visual Studio Tools for Office infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

You can use the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Characters object to format characters within a text string. The Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Characters object is not a collection.

Optional Parameters

For information on optional parameters, see Understanding Optional Parameters in COM Interop.

The following code example creates a NamedRange and populates it with the word Smith. It then changes the first character in the word by making it bold and setting the size to 14.

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Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange charactersRange;
private void FormatCharacters()
{
    charactersRange = this.Controls.AddNamedRange(
        this.Range["A1", "A1"], "charactersRange");
    this.charactersRange.Value2 = "Smith";
    this.charactersRange.Characters[1, 1].Font.Bold = true;
    this.charactersRange.Characters[1, 1].Font.Size = 14;
}
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