[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You do know, don't you, that you can insert a NumWords field into the
document itself?

That doesn't answer your question, of course, and perhaps someone else can
do that. Do your documents contain empty paragraph marks? I think Word
counts each of those as a word, along with certain other things such as page
and section breaks. But I'm no expert on this, so I'll wait for one of them
to weigh in.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"aitch" wrote in message
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This is a reposting as I earlier put the question into the wrong place.

On my machine there are a number of stories I have written - varying from
over 70000 words down to about 1000. I need the number of words to let
potential editors know when I submit something.

These are stored in a sub-section of Documents. Today I discovered that a
right click offers "more" - giving me extra column categories than I
didn't
know about, and they include one specifically titled Word Count. This
seemed
like manna from Heaven until I created and used this extra column.

Some of the variations between the original W Count from the document and
the one automatically inserted by Windows in the column are quite
striking.

Some examples. The first figure is using Tools / Word count; The second
from
the W.C. option in the column in Documents from 'more' .

3959 3062 Diff -927
3786 3161 -625
12279 10321 -1958
5687 4565 -1122.

A couple of counts match exactly at 2668 and 918 while a novel length
piece
of 71796 words shows a tiny difference of +3.

The Word version I use is from Office XP Pro and the Documents folder I
use
is included in Vista.

Has anyone any advice to give or comments to make? All comments would be
appreciated.

Cheers,

Aitch.