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How to get no of character in a word document without opening using vb.net ?

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Guess.

Unless you open the file in some way, you cannot tell how many words it contains.

It's like a letter being delivered to you. Unless you open the envelope, you can't be sure exactly what the contents say.
 
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Asutosha 8-Feb-12 5:09am    
thanks,

but in my existing system it is opening the word document and counting the number of charatcter, and it is slow for more file.

I need to increase the performance of the application by not opening the file and get no of character..


please suggest in vb.net or c#
OriginalGriff 8-Feb-12 5:17am    
You can't. You can get the number of bytes in the file, but that includes a lot of packaging that the word document requires to specify formatting, fonts, pages, layout and so forth.
The only way to get the number of actual characters in the word document is to open the file.

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