dsofile.dll returns incorrect page count

[Mark Cykowski]

I have some VBA code that uses dsofile.dll to retrieve
Word document properties without opening the documents.
It works great most of the time except sometimes it
returns a page count of 2 when the document actually has
3 pages. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

 

[Jonathan West]

I have some VBA code that uses dsofile.dll to retrieve
Word document properties without opening the documents.
It works great most of the time except sometimes it
returns a page count of 2 when the document actually has
3 pages. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Hi Mark,

Yes, this is a common problem, caused by the fact that Word does not always
update the page count when the document is saved. dsofile is correctly
reading the property stored in the document, but the property is being set
incorrectly by Word.

To ensure that the property is always set correctly, you need to use the
following line of code just before saving the document

ActiveDocument.ComputeStatistics wdStatisticPages

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