You could also use a Replace operation to just format the bracketed words as
Hidden. When Hidden text is not displayed, it is also not counted.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:45:01 -0800, jlk
wrote:
Hi - is it possible for word count to exclude all words in brackets?
Not directly -- you have to do it in two steps.
Make a copy of the document using the Save As command. In the copy,
delete all the words that are bracketed, by using a wildcard
replacement of an expression like
\([A-Za-z ]@\)
with nothing as described at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm (but since different
people use "bracket" to mean different characters, you may have to
change the expression to make it work for yourself).
Do a word count on the remaining text of the copy document, which you
can then discard.
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