Catalog all words in document

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Guest

I'm trying to organize responses from a survey. Much of the survey was typed
responses. I can scan all the surveys into a Word document, but I'm looking
for a way to catalog every word within that document.

For example, I would like the results to list the most used word to least
used word. It might look something like this:

the: 322
and: 301
property: 290
school: 250
uniforms: 231
of: 222
cooperatiion: 201

The intent of the survey was to gather suggestions for a school, so the most
used words would be very revealing. Any ideas?
 
D

Doug Robbins

Run the following macro:

Sub WordFrequency()



Dim SingleWord As String 'Raw word pulled from doc
Const maxwords = 9000 'Maximum unique words allowed
Dim Words(maxwords) As String 'Array to hold unique words
Dim Freq(maxwords) As Integer 'Frequency counter for Unique
Words
Dim WordNum As Integer 'Number of unique words
Dim ByFreq As Boolean 'Flag for sorting order
Dim ttlwds As Long 'Total words in the document
Dim Excludes As String 'Words to be excluded
Dim Found As Boolean 'Temporary flag
Dim j, k, l, Temp As Integer 'Temporary variables
Dim tword As String '



' Set up excluded words
' Excludes =
"[the][a][of][is][to][for][this][that][by][be][and][are]"
Excludes = ""
Excludes = InputBox$("Enter words that you wish to exclude,
surrounding each word with [ ].", "Excluded Words", "")
' Excludes = Excludes & InputBox$("The following words are excluded:
" & Excludes & ". Enter words that you wish to exclude, surrounding each
word with [ ].", "Excluded Words", "")
' Find out how to sort
ByFreq = True
Ans = InputBox$("Sort by WORD or by FREQ?", "Sort order", "FREQ")
If Ans = "" Then End
If UCase(Ans) = "WORD" Then
ByFreq = False
End If



Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
System.Cursor = wdCursorWait
WordNum = 0
ttlwds = ActiveDocument.Words.Count
Totalwords = ActiveDocument.Words.Count



' Control the repeat
For Each aword In ActiveDocument.Words
SingleWord = Trim(aword)
If SingleWord < "A" Or SingleWord > "z" Then SingleWord = ""
'Out of range?
If InStr(Excludes, "[" & SingleWord & "]") Then SingleWord = ""
'On exclude list?
If Len(SingleWord) > 0 Then
Found = False
For j = 1 To WordNum
If Words(j) = SingleWord Then
Freq(j) = Freq(j) + 1
Found = True
Exit For
End If
Next j
If Not Found Then
WordNum = WordNum + 1
Words(WordNum) = SingleWord
Freq(WordNum) = 1
End If
If WordNum > maxwords - 1 Then
j = MsgBox("The maximum array size has been exceeded.
Increase maxwords.", vbOKOnly)
Exit For
End If
End If
ttlwds = ttlwds - 1
StatusBar = "Remaining: " & ttlwds & " Unique: " & WordNum
Next aword



' Now sort it into word order
For j = 1 To WordNum - 1
k = j
For l = j + 1 To WordNum
If (Not ByFreq And Words(l) < Words(k)) Or (ByFreq And
Freq(l) > Freq(k)) Then k = l
Next l
If k <> j Then
tword = Words(j)
Words(j) = Words(k)
Words(k) = tword
Temp = Freq(j)
Freq(j) = Freq(k)
Freq(k) = Temp
End If
StatusBar = "Sorting: " & WordNum - j
Next j



' Now write out the results
tmpName = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.FullName
Documents.Add Template:=tmpName, NewTemplate:=False
Selection.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.ClearAll
With Selection
For j = 1 To WordNum
.TypeText Text:=Words(j) & vbTab & Trim(Str(Freq(j))) &
vbCrLf
Next j
End With
ActiveDocument.Range.Select
Selection.ConvertToTable
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Add BeforeRow:=Selection.Rows(1)
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Range.InsertBefore "Word"
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 2).Range.InsertBefore
"Occurrences"
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment =
wdAlignParagraphCenter
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Add
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count,
1).Range.InsertBefore "Total words in Document"
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count,
2).Range.InsertBefore Totalwords
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Add
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count,
1).Range.InsertBefore "Number of different words in Document"
ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count,
2).Range.InsertBefore Trim(Str(WordNum))
System.Cursor = wdCursorNormal
' j = MsgBox("There were " & Trim(Str(WordNum)) & " different words
", vbOKOnly, "Finished")
Selection.HomeKey wdStory



End Sub


--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 

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