Jennifer,

I'm sorry, I had checked with Word 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 and forgot that that issue was not apparent in the other versions.

Unless MS does something in a Word2013 service pack then these type of process are going to be brutally slow (it current takes loops and for each process 3 to 4 time longer to run in Word 2013).

I think the file size issue is because all the color attributes have to be written in the OpenOfficeXMLFile format file.

Never notices the character count display issue before.

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