[Helmut Weber]

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you could count all the listparagaphs
and deduct their number from the number
of all the words in the doc,
but won't get you much further.

Maybe asking again in
microsoft.word.public.vba.general

There might be some bodies around
which can help with a practical,
non-theoretical, working as good as can be, solution.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"