Detect Blank MS Word Document

I know that you can do something like this with Word VBA: Function CountChars(oDoc As Document) As Integer CountChars = oDoc.Characters.Count End Function And call it like: someinteger = CountChars(ActiveDocument) The only problem is that this will return 1 for a blank document, but I would imagine that if you got back a 1 you would automatically assume that it's a blank (or worthless) document. Having said that, I don't see any reason that you would be unable to code this in .NET, as long as you have a reference to the document in question. I'm interested to see if anyone else knows of a better way!