Word Count also fails if the selection is a table column.

(It also fails for Alt+Drag selections of ordinary text, but this is
understandable I guess...)

I assume that whoever coded Word Count simply neglected to test for
all the different types of selections that are possible, and his case
statement fell out the bottom to "count everything".

It is probably easy enough to fix Word Count for table cells and
columns "just" by testing for those types of selections and counting
what is selected. It already works for discontiguous selections, so
table cells and columns ought to be possible.

Someone would have to point this out to them, and some programmer
would have to be interested enough to sneak it in despite the product
managers.

Bob S



On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 01:11:56 +1000, Shauna Kelly wrote:

Hi Bob

It gets curioser and curioser as someone once said.

Shauna

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...
Hi Graeme,

Interesting. If you use the 'White' (whole row) selection arrow
on the 2nd single row table (where it now finds the end of row/table
marker it counts the selection correctly.

If you use the black selection (single cell/range) selection arrow
Word does not see that you've 'selected' part of the document and
appears to give the count for the whole document.

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"Grey Dingo" wrote in message
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Great Shauna! You are right and I look forward to trying Complete Word
Count.
Thank you all for your help.

Graeme Roberts
Grey Dingo
Old dogs learn new tricks.
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MS Office System Products MVP

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