Counting the Number of Characters in a Word Document

[jmrdaddy]

I am attempting to have VBA return the number of characters in a document using the following line of code...

lngNumChars = ActiveDocument.Content.ReadabilityStatistics(2).Value

For long documents, that value returns 32001. This method apparently returns an integer value.

Is there a way to get that value as a long? Or is there a better way to return the number of characters in a word document?

 

[ratman]

consider this:

Dim charCount As Long

charCount = myRange.ComputeStatistics(Statistic:=wdStatisticCharacters) Thank you,
Dave Rattigan

 

[jmrdaddy]

That's great! It worked! I used ActiveDocument rather than a range. Thank you!