Word doesn't have that capability. You might be able to get something
acceptable using a macro, although, dynamic updating would be a tall order.
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"Neil" wrote in message
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thanks for that. I didn't quite explain what I wanted though, what I'd
like
is the result shown dynamically in the word document so users can see a
running total of a number of occurances, by the way its office 2003 on XP
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
If you find/replace text with itself Word will report the number of hits.
For example, suppose I'm looking for the number of times that "ABcd"
(case
specific) occurs in a file. I can do Find/Replace:
Find: ABcd
Replace with: ABcd
Match case enabled
Replace All
Word will tell you how many it replaced, effectively not changing
anything.
If case isn't important, then use ^& as the Replace with: string. ^& is
the
special match string for "whatever matched the search". Hence, in this
case,
if Word found AbCd or ABCD it would replace it with AbCd or ABCD,
respectively.
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Neil" wrote in message
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Hi, I have a word document with a variety of tables in it. I am trying
to
count the number of times a string of letters appear. In excel I would
simply
select the field and use the countif, but can't do this in word! Can
anyone
help please?