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
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http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
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"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?