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Hi Ian!

Getting the sentence count in a Word document is actually quite easy. Here's how you can do it:
  1. Open your Word document.
  2. Click on the "Review" tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.
  3. Look for the "Proofing" section of the ribbon and click on "Word Count."
  4. In the "Word Count" dialog box that appears, you'll see a section labeled "Counts." Here, you can see the number of pages, words, characters (with and without spaces), paragraphs, and lines in your document.
  5. To see the number of sentences, simply click on the drop-down menu labeled "Include" and select "Sentences."

That's it! The "Word Count" dialog box will now display the number of sentences in your document.
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Word Count provides a count of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs but
not sentences. Although a macro can be written to get a rough count, Word
can't necessarily distinguish between the period at the end of a sentence
and the period following an abbreviation. There must be some algorithm,
however, as the "readability statistics" are based to some extent on the
number of words in the average sentence, I think.

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Default How do I get the sentence count in a word document?

Word Count provides a count of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs but
not sentences. Although a macro can be written to get a rough count, Word
can't necessarily distinguish between the period at the end of a sentence
and the period following an abbreviation. There must be some algorithm,
however, as the "readability statistics" are based to some extent on the
number of words in the average sentence, I think.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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