Document.Characters Property (Word)
Returns a Characters collection that represents the characters in a document. Read-only.
Syntax
expression .Characters
expression A variable that represents a Document object.
Remarks
For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.
Example
This example returns the number of characters in the first sentence in the active document (spaces are included in the count).
numchars = ActiveDocument.Characters.Count