If you select a line of text, the word count status bar will display the
number of words in the line followed by a / and the number of words in the
document. If you click on the word count in the status bar, the Word Count
dialog will open with a display of the following information pertaining to
the line that is selected:
Pages (will be 1)
Words (number of words in the selected line)
Characters (no spaces)
Characters (with spaces)
Paragraphs (0 for a multiline paragraph)
Lines (will be 1)
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com