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)
'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property Characters As _CharactersType
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
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.
Private charactersRange As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange
Private Sub FormatCharacters()
charactersRange = Me.Controls.AddNamedRange( _
Me.Range("A1", "A1"), "charactersRange")
Me.charactersRange.Value2 = "Smith"
Me.charactersRange.Characters(1, 1).Font.Bold = True
Me.charactersRange.Characters(1, 1).Font.Size = 14
End Sub