[Graham Mayor]

See Suzanne's replies in this thread

Right click the status bar at the bottom of the Word window and check 'Word
Count'. The Word count is displayed in the status bar.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Frank.Appelgate wrote:
Where do I contact MSFT? These blogs did not help me. I still can not
find the word counter for word 2007

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Note that the people answering questions here do not work for
Microsoft. And providing details is necessary, because, as you
pointed out, no one here is a mind-reader.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Older Than You" Older Than wrote in
message ...
Oh great, I guess we are supposed to be mind-readers and just know
all this.

"Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior?"
Isn't MS supposed to be telling US where these behaviors are?
Didn't someone test this before releasing it? Why to users have
to point out the
problems?

But I guess if there is no regard for the amount of lost
productivity caused
by someone in MS not having anything better to do than completely
change the
UI, there certainly is no interest in telling customers how the new
UI actually works (when it does).

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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

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
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"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

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*