I'm doing some medical transcription work and I need to count the number of
lines for only those lines that having typing in them, NOT BLANK LINES OR
PARAGRAPHS. Some of my documents are so long, that i'm not going to manually
select each blank line and "suppress" it - this will take too long. Is there
any other way?

See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Count_Lines_of_Text.htm

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See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

MKA wrote:
I'm doing some medical transcription work and I need to count the
number of lines for only those lines that having typing in them, NOT
BLANK LINES OR PARAGRAPHS. Some of my documents are so long, that
i'm not going to manually select each blank line and "suppress" it -
this will take too long. Is there any other way?

The secret is not to use empty paragraphs as "blank lines." Use Space
Before/After instead.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"MKA" wrote in message
...
I'm doing some medical transcription work and I need to count the number
of
lines for only those lines that having typing in them, NOT BLANK LINES OR
PARAGRAPHS. Some of my documents are so long, that i'm not going to
manually
select each blank line and "suppress" it - this will take too long. Is
there
any other way?

The suggestion made by Suzanne Barnhill is really (in my opinion) the best
way to address your issue. If the document is already written, and you have
created blank lines using the return key, you might want to remove all blank
spaces using Word's Replace feature (cntrl H). First save the document so
that if things go wrong, you will still have your original. Then, instead of
typing text in the replace field, go to "Special" and enter paragraph TWICE
(type "^p^p" in the FIND field, but without the quotes and using lower case
"p"), and enter paragraph ONCE (type "^p") in the REPLACE field.
Try this on a sample document first to ensure that you understand how it
will work.

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"MKA" wrote:

I'm doing some medical transcription work and I need to count the number of
lines for only those lines that having typing in them, NOT BLANK LINES OR
PARAGRAPHS. Some of my documents are so long, that i'm not going to manually
select each blank line and "suppress" it - this will take too long. Is there
any other way?