Hi, I am writing my final Master thesis and by school regulation I need to
include the total number of characters (including spaces) in the front page
of my work.

Of course the cover page and bibliography are excluded from the count,
therefore I created 3 sections in my Word document (first pages with cover,
main part to be counted, and bibliography).

I would like to insert a field in the front page, which automatically counts
the characters (including spaces) of only 1 section of the doc.

I already know (by previously asking in this forum) how to create a field,
which counts also spaces ( {DOCPROPERTY CharactersWithSpaces} ), but how do
I restrain the count to only a section? Furthermore placing the field in a
different section?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best, Christian

PS (if you have the chance, after posting your answer, email it also to me
at iachris (at) freemail (dot) it - Thank you)