VBA - Characters Collection

The Characters collection is Read-Only and represents all the characters in a specified range or selection.
Each item in the characters collection is a Range object. There is no Character object.

Characters(index) - where index is the index number
This obtains the first character in the current selection and assigns it to a Range object.

It is also possible to refer to the Range properties and methods directly.

Count Property (Read Only)

The Count property returns the total number of characters (as a Long).

This displays the total number of characters in the first sentence of the active document