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WynneSMI

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This is probably a really dumb question, but since I'm new to this I'm gonna ask the question. I have a string and need to know how to find out how many chars are in it. How do you count the number of characters in a string in VBA? Thanks.
 
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Try Len([string]) where [string] is your string name.
 
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Thanks n2cbk! I figured it had to be something simple!
 
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