Do CTRL-F9,
This will insert a pair of curly braces that are field delimiters (These
braces cannot be typed directly, you must use CTRL-F9),
Between the {}, type NUMWORDS,
You should now have :
{NUMWORDS}
Select the field and do F9 to update it and toggle it back to its value.
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