Syntax:

NUMCHARS [ switch ]

Description: Retrieves the number of characters in the current document, as recorded in the Characters element of the Application-Defined File Properties part.

Field Value: The number of characters in the current document.

Switches: Zero or one numeric-formatting-switch or general-formatting-switch.

[Example: Consider the case in the document has 6,183 words and the following fields are updated:

NUMCHARS
NUMCHARS \# #,##0

the results are:

6183
6,183

end example]