Hi

 Can any one tell us a way to calculate the
 characters without spaces in the MS word document through
 VB.NET?

 We were using

ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties
(wdPropertyCharacters)

to retreive the characters count thru VB6, but the same is
not working in VB.NET

Thank you,

Regards
Anand

Hi Anand,
try this:
ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(16).
VB doesn't know word constants.
Guess, it'll be the same with VB.Net.
Greetings from Germany
Helmut Weber

Hi Anand,
... and something more.
AFAIK constants get known to VB (probably vb.net, too) by
using "early binding", which I've haven't used so far,
and therefore cann't explain it.
HW