Get Word Document Line Count

[masonad]

I'm trying to get a line count for various word documents though VB code. If I save it as a temporary .txt file the text file doesn't do a carrage return when it word wraps in a document and thus the line count becomes erroneous when opening the file for Input and looping thru to the end. How can I access the MS Word line count property? Also, is there a way to ignore blank lines? Thanks!

[j_sakthivel]

by using wordapp.statistics.wdnumberoflines