[Southrend]

When I open a word document (Using office 2003) I see in the status bar that
Word counts "[x-amount] characters (estimated)". I was wondering how Word was
doing that? I've opened the same document twice without changing anything and
both times the estimated character count was different. And does this
estimation include or exclude spaces?

[Graham Mayor]

It reads the information from the stats stored in the document properties.
File Properties Statistics

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Southrend wrote:
When I open a word document (Using office 2003) I see in the status
bar that Word counts "[x-amount] characters (estimated)". I was
wondering how Word was doing that? I've opened the same document
twice without changing anything and both times the estimated
character count was different. And does this estimation include or
exclude spaces?