Characters Property

Applies To

Document object, Range object, Selection object.

Description

Returns a Characters collection that represents the characters in a document, range, or selection. Read-only.

See Also

Range object, Sentences property, Words property.

Example

This example displays the first character in the selection. If nothing is selected, the character immediately after the insertion point is displayed.

char = Selection.Characters(1).Text
MsgBox "The first character is... " & char

This example returns the number of characters in the first sentence in the active document (spaces are included in the count).

numchars = ActiveDocument.Sentences(1).Characters.Count