[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Digitig,

Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior?

Is this typed text, or text pasted from a non-Word document pasted in?

What font are you using and what view are you working in.

Generally, the type of behavior you mentioned can occur if the font is a symbol font (even if the 'symbols' look 'letterlike') as
Word then doesn't see 'words' just characters, but clicking on the Wordcount item on the Word 2007 status bar at the bottom of the
screen should bring up the count dialog and a character count that does 'see' these characters but the Word count may not appear
correctly.

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"digitig" wrote in message ...
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Live word count is on the status bar.

But only sometimes updates. Specifically, if you select part of a text the
live word count /should/ show the number of words in the selected portion
before the number of words in the whole text. Sometimes it does, and that's
great. Sometimes it doesn't, which sucks. In my latest college assignment
there are blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word
count will show the word count for the selection. There there are other
blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will
continue to display only the total for the document and I have to go to the
word count button on the review tab to get the count.

So I'm afraid I'm at least partly with "Joe in Durango, CO". Word count in
the status bar would be a great feature if it worked consistently. It
doesn't, so it's a real nuisance that the version that /does/ work is so hard
to find.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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