COUNTING WORDS...

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Monica

I'm attempting to set up a document to use as an essay.
It requires a between a certain # of words. I cannot
locate a tool within the program that counts the # of
words in my essay. Is there one? And if so, how do I go
about using it? Thank you....
 
-----Original Message-----
I'm attempting to set up a document to use as an essay.
It requires a between a certain # of words. I cannot
locate a tool within the program that counts the # of
words in my essay. Is there one? And if so, how do I go
about using it? Thank you....
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Go to File \ Properties \ Statistics - that lists
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everything you need. :o)
 
-----Original Message-----
I'm attempting to set up a document to use as an essay.
It requires a between a certain # of words. I cannot
locate a tool within the program that counts the # of
words in my essay. Is there one? And if so, how do I go
about using it? Thank you....
.
Sorry, I should have said while in your document, go to
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File, Properties, Statistics...
 
Note, however, that if you're counting words in a school assignment or
manuscript for publication, you don't *want* to count words in the header or
footer, and you would be unlikely to be using text boxes.

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Shauna Kelly said:
Hi Monica

As Suzanne and Kari have suggested, Tools > Word Count, or File > Properties > Statistics.

However, bear in mind that Word's word count doesn't count all the words.
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If you have Word 2002 you can choose whether or not to
count footnotes. But Word won't count words in headers or footers or in
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text boxes that you might use to create drawings or
diagrams.

Some academic friends of mine had the same problem, so I created a little
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add-in for them that gets around some of these problems.
You can download it at
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http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/CompleteWordCount/index.html. It might be
useful for you.
 
-----Original Message-----
I'm attempting to set up a document to use as an essay.
It requires a between a certain # of words. I cannot
locate a tool within the program that counts the # of
words in my essay. Is there one? And if so, how do I go
about using it? Thank you....
.
Yes there is a way. Once the document is open and you
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have typed in whatever you wish, highlight "tools" on the
command line, then highlight "word count". You will get a
dialogue box which gives you the following summary:

pages
words
characters (no spaces)
charcters (with spaces)
paragraphs
lines

You can also click on include footnotes and endnotes, for
a further count. You can also click on show toolbar and
refresh as you add content to the document.

Hope this helps...
 
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