Get Number of Characters with Space from Word Document

Question

I am using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word to count number of characters with space but when i am using inbuilt function i.e count it gives me more count then viewing manually from word document.

 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application word = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();
 doc = word.Documents.Open(ref fileName,
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                ref missing,ref missing,ref missing);                
            doc.Activate();
            double count = doc.Content.Characters.Count;

so, is this any method which can directly give characters with space?

Answer 1

try this

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range rng = doc.Content; 
rng.Select(); 
int nb = rng.ComputeStatistics(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdStatistic.wdStatisticCharactersWithSpaces);